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Originally posted by kroms33
I was very very close to dismissing this: then - something pretty weird caught my eye.
If possible - could I get some feedback on this just to determine if this area is a "blackout" ???
Click on the object and see if you can zoom into it - I get "Image is not Available - which perhaps it isn't - I don't know, but most of the landscape around it is viewable by clicking the arrows.
SO, what I did is zoom up to it in photoshop - and messed with the exposure settings. The object seems to have a 3d value consistent with shadows on the landscape around it.
Not saying this is a structure - but it does raise some questions - because this is on a NASA website...
Moon crater Messier is about 1,250 m deep and of an elongated form, measuring about 11 km in length and 8 km in width. Jean-Paul Philbert gives its selenographic longitude at 48deg East and its latitude at 2deg South.
Messier A lies about 20km west of Messier, at a longitude of 47.6deg E, latitude 1.9d S. It is a double crater, measuring 11x13 km. The smaller, older crater was superimposed by a newer, a bit larger crater.
The bright double ray, reaching out from these two craters to the West, 120 km throughout Mare Fecunditatis, gives the whole feature an appearance closely resembling a comet with a tail.
Originally posted by avalonandon
that is what i was agreeing with , an earlier post that those two white objects are probably the craters discussed..however, we are still left with the original photo that shows a rectangular object. the fact it is not in more recent photos has been discussed i believe, and one is left to ponder the discrepencies.
Originally posted by internos
Originally posted by avalonandon
that is what i was agreeing with , an earlier post that those two white objects are probably the craters discussed..however, we are still left with the original photo that shows a rectangular object. the fact it is not in more recent photos has been discussed i believe, and one is left to ponder the discrepencies.
IMHO, most likely is the result of a bad data processing of the images taken by Clementine.
ArMap managed to recover some of the original PDS ones, and many data were already missing before the conversion process from native .pds to .GIF (and to the browser). But i don't know how the images have been handled.
Some links
www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil...
www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil...
www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil...
Near side
What i mean is that it would have been easily visible from earth, by many telescopes: despite of it, it is only visible in the 1.5 version of Clementine image browser and in the images consequentially generated.
Probably, the same thing has happened with the huge triangle on the Far Side
www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil...
But, who knows?
[edit on 2/12/2007 by internos]
you can see theres a square building there to the right, it looks like a base alright..
Originally posted by Gooey
. . . . . . . Its not a structure at all. Dude this is just some higher ground and some craters. Don't get too excited yet. If there were aliens running around on the moon I think they'ed make themselves a tiiiiiiny bit more noticeable than dirt >.>