I guess NASA could indeed fake new pictures if they wanted to, but if they share the raw data with colleges, schools, scientist and others from around the world it would eliminate that argument.
As far as sending another orbiter, we could use advanced technologies to scan the moon's surface in more detail. This would be great knowledge and it would help to verify the moon landings so that we can go back and perhaps setup a lunar base. I don't know about you, but I think we should go back and setup a lunar base. This information could be used to make that happen.
Well, that's exactly what Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (see links above) is for - helping identify good targets for the new landings scheduled to begin in 2018.
I'm not sure what you mean by "share the raw data". They did that back in the '60s and '70s, including lunar samples analyzed by scientists around the world.
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