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Originally posted by seanizle
Nasa has been known to airbrush and tamper with its photos, but if it has not been mentioned yet, can we look at the possibility that there might have been someone, or something on the moon before us? There have been several threads on here about structures and artifacts on the moon, which might explain some of your rocks. Then again this could have been taken on a set, some of the moon mission were probably faked.
These panoramas were not easy to produce. The astronauts’ movements on the lunar surface were encumbered by spacesuits. The astronauts were also unable to align the cameras with a view-finder. Because the astronauts were wearing helmets, the cameras were mounted on the chests of the spacesuits. Without a view finder, the crew had to learn how to point, shoot, turn slightly, point and shoot again, etc., until a panorama of overlapping photographs was generated.
Apollo Surface Panoramas is a digital library of photographic panoramas that the Apollo astronauts took while exploring the Moon's surface. These images provide a spectacular boots-on-the-ground view of the lunar landscape. The panoramas are stitched together from individual 70mm Hasselblad frames, each of which is also accessible through this new atlas. Lunar surface features captured in the panoramas can be studied using zoom and pan tools. An annotated version of each panorama is also available to assist users with the identification of major geographic features around each Apollo landing site.
The digitized and re-rendered panoramas were produced by Warren Harold at the Johnson Space Center. That work was conducted within JSC’s Information Resources Directorate; Maura White was the NASA technical monitor. We also thank William Close within that directorate for helping us distribute the image products. This work was supported by JSC’s Advanced Projects Office while that office was developing architectural elements for the Constellation Program. Carlos Noriega and Dean Eppler within APO made this project possible. Annotation of images and the design of this atlas is provided by LPI.
Originally posted by mikesingh
Thanks to Jo Skipper for leading me on to this mystery!
Originally posted by DGFenrir
Originally posted by seanizle
Nasa has been known to airbrush and tamper with its photos, but if it has not been mentioned yet, can we look at the possibility that there might have been someone, or something on the moon before us? There have been several threads on here about structures and artifacts on the moon, which might explain some of your rocks. Then again this could have been taken on a set, some of the moon mission were probably faked.
What a load of BS! Show me proof of airbrushing and tampering!
Edit: The more wannabe image experts start a thread on this site claiming NASA or whatever tampers with images which are easily explainable the less I believe in these conspiracy theories..
[edit on 22-4-2009 by DGFenrir]
Originally posted by ziggystar60
I am in NO way sure about this, so it is just a suggestion...
But I think what we see may be a "ghost" effect in the panorama, where objects, in this case Moon rocks, appear twice. The astronauts didn't use a tripod and couldn't precisely follow an horizontal axis when they took the different photos that were later stitched together to panoramic images. Also:
Besides following an horizontal or vertical axis, it is important not to slant the pics. Many stitching softwares correctly handle perspective distortions caused by the panning movement of the camera and modify the pics accordingly, so that objects boundaries match perfectly; however programs often assume that the pics have the same slant: even little angles of rotation can cause ghost effects in overlapping areas.
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[edit on 22/4/09 by ziggystar60]