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Originally posted by sherpa
But I am just a guy of the street a, guy the an Astro Physicists degree might have more luck with the right story, and you might even get much more, just a thought.
Originally posted by absente
NEW INFO
Just spoke to Mr. Panov at the institute. We can take the 2 meter telescope November this year - not earlier, because of other reservations. Payment is 150 EURO per night (approx. 200 USD).
I asked him about those coordinates John gave me. I ask him also that i heard of restrictions in photographing the moon - he said there will be no restrictions and that "the sky is ours - do what you want".
So it will be possible to do it. He just said he need an "official letter" from the persons involved in this. I think it would be great if we have your name as a "backup" John. Something like a lead director of the project.
Comments?
Originally posted by absente
NEW INFO
Just spoke to Mr. Panov at the institute. We can take the 2 meter telescope November this year - not earlier, because of other reservations. Payment is 150 EURO per night (approx. 200 USD).
I asked him about those coordinates John gave me. I ask him also that i heard of restrictions in photographing the moon - he said there will be no restrictions and that "the sky is ours - do what you want".
So it will be possible to do it. He just said he need an "official letter" from the persons involved in this. I think it would be great if we have your name as a "backup" John. Something like a lead director of the project.
Comments?
Originally posted by jamestkirk
a most excellent display of proof indisputable! my hearty thanks go out to all of you working hard to prove what is really going on. zorgon, your work is impeccable!
boy, Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore knows how to kick it up! are you sure he's looking at the moon images. looks like he's eying up a shot of jamisons!
carry on!!
jimbo
Originally posted by absente
I hope we have ATS's blessings for the project
Originally posted by jamestkirk
boy, Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore knows how to kick it up! are you sure he's looking at the moon images. looks like he's eying up a shot of jamisons!
As Neil Armstrong prepared to take his "one small step" onto the moon in July 1969, a specially hardened video camera tucked into the lander's door clicked on to capture that first human contact with the lunar surface. The ghostly images of the astronaut's boot touching the soil record what may be the most iconic moment in NASA history, and a major milestone for mankind.
Millions of television viewers around the world saw those fuzzy, moving images and were amazed, even mesmerized. What they didn't know was that the Apollo 11 camera had actually sent back video far crisper and more dramatic -- spectacular images that, remarkably, only a handful of people have ever seen.
NASA engineers who did view them knew what the public was missing, but the relatively poor picture quality of the broadcast images never became an issue because the landing was such a triumph. The original, high-quality lunar tapes were soon stored and forgotten.
Many months later, disappointed officials now report that the trail they followed has gone cold. Although the search continues, they acknowledge that the videos may be lost forever.
It was only for Apollo 11 that an unusually configured video feed was used. It was transmitted from the moon to ground sites in Australia and the Mojave Desert in California, where technicians reformatted the video for broadcast and transmitted long-distance over analog lines to Houston. A lot of video quality was lost during that process, turning clear, bright images into gray blobs and oddly moving shapes -- what Lebar now calls a "bastardized" version of the actual footage.
In 2002, one of the men who had worked at Australia's Honeysuckle Creek ground station in 1969 -- and who had seen the high-quality Apollo 11 video originals back then -- found a 14-inch reel of tape in his garage that seemed to be from that period. He brought it to a Honeysuckle Creek reunion and passed it around.
The photos were of the original images -- not the ones reformatted for television -- and they were clearly much better than what everyone else had seen.
An even more bazaar twist... Sir Patrick Moore, a famous British Astronomer....
"Moore has carried out important work in the field of astronomy. It was revealed in a TV program that when the Russians wanted accurate information on the Moon over a number of years, they first went to America then other countries for the information but could not turn it up. Then someone suggested Patrick Moore and on going to his house and asking him, they were invited in. Moore left them and returned with a pile of exercise books with all the necessary information in, his records of observations over many years which is how in 1959, the Soviet Union used his charts of the moon to correlate their first pictures of the far side with his mapped features on the near side and he was involved in the lunar mapping used by the NASA Apollo space missions. In 1965, he was appointed Director of the newly constructed Armagh Planetarium, a post he held until 1968.
During the Apollo program, he was one of the presenters of BBC television's coverage of the moon landing missions. The tapes of these broadcasts no longer exist: conflicting stories have circulated as to what precisely happened to them, or whether the broadcasts were recorded at all."
Originally posted by jamestkirk
from what i've read about the end of the clementine mission is that the spacecraft returned to earth for a 'lunar/earth transfer orbit' as planned, but the craft ended up staying in earth orbit because of a malfunction, burning all of the fuel and causing it to spin at 80 rpm. yet they somehow managed to get it in a geocentric orbit and pass through the van allen belt. hhhmmm, seems kinda hard to do once you're out of fuel and spinning??
A: As I mentioned, what we can tell from looking at the radar return is roughly the area that is covered by this. Assuming it reflects ice like ice on Mercury -- making that assumption.That's been well looked at. Then in order to see this back scatter effect, this roadside reflector effect; it's estimated that we have to see some number of wavelengths of our radar into the ice. In reviewing the paper, several of the reviewers posited we probably need to see somewhere between 50 and 100 wavelengths. So our wavelength is about six inches. So at the thickest case, it's roughly 50 feet.
Q: That translates to what in volume?
A: We were very conservative in the press release, but if you take basically 100 square kilometers by roughly 50 feet, you get a volume of something like a quarter of a cubic mile, I think it's on that order. It's a considerable amount, but it's not a huge glacier or anything like that.
Q: Can you compare that with something you know?
A: It's a lake. A small lake.
A: However, there is still a space-borne component to our theater and national missile defense architecture, and that is the space-based infrared satellite. That will allow us to dotracking, particularly in boost and in the mid-course phases of the trajectory of a ballistic missile. So all the technologies that were demonstrated on Clementine are technologies that we would hope would be either used or would be the grand-daddies of technologies that we would eventually use in our space surveillance platforms. So that part of the space architecture is still very much alive.
Q: But the role of the so-called Star Wars system now has shifted to more of a surveillance, as opposed to shooting something down...
A: No, it is still based on shooting down ballistic missiles by impact with interceptors. So this technology is
important in order to track and pass the track files on to the interceptors in order to allow them to hit their targets. So it's very much a part of the architecture.
Q: Where is Clementine now?
A: The spacecraft, as you know, from the name Clementine, is only supposed to be here for a short period of time and be lost and gone forever, so it was intended for a very short period of time after this lunar mission, did a rendezvous with the earth, and shortly after that was shifted by the moon's gravity and continued a flight which will bring it back near the earth about nine years from now. So it's an 11 year total flight around the sun. So basically it's moving like a little planet around the sun, and it will bring it back close to us in about nine years... It's two years since it left us so it will be another nine years before it's back. (2005) But it's not useful right now. The mission is finished.
Q: But unlike it's namesake, it's not lost and gone forever. It will be back?
A: It will be back...
see you on the dark side of the moon...
Originally posted by Quasar
Wow, John. That is absolutely amazing. At first I was thinking, "this guys a kook." But after illustrating the outline of that structure, I might be on the first step on agreeing with you.
Originally posted by RedEyes
1) Are you saying that the picture you posted from Apollo 15 is airbrushed? Or are you saying that the powers that be physically cleared the area before the photo was taken?
2) I'm sure you must have been asked this one before, but here goes - How is it that you came to have access to so much varied information relating to conspiracies, ufos etc ? What I mean is usually someone will provide information that specifically relates to one or two subjects as they have had direct access, but you seem to have information that relates to many varied "secret" subjects.
Originally posted by merryxmas
These pictures are very interesting indeed. I'm most interested in the 3(i believe is the number) defense contractors that have exclusive rights to all the moon's minerals. If the reactor is there to process Helium 3 then qui bono?
Any idea on the intention of the base?
Originally posted by 1234567
So we have some questions to get clear....
1) Are there really bases on the moon ?
2) Do these Infrared images show anything but warm rocks ?
3) Why has there not been any Infrared images made by NASA ?
4) Do Moon craters retain more heat that the surrounding landscape ?
Originally posted by mrRviewer
the article or story i read also said there is records in ancient human history of its arrival, no such thing ever existed and then poof next theres the moon.
i also wonder what in fared pictures would look like on the dark side. "dark side yeah" they said that was another reason it was artificial was because it didn't rotate.
anyway the whole argument is mute, its not like us poor civilians here at ats will create a probe to go investigate the moon for our selves. we are but simple folk who only know what we read and watch on the boob tube. Perhaps when space travel becomes commercial i will take a moon tour and figure it out for my self. untill then lets debate!
Originally posted by 1234567
Are you getting at Atmospheric anomalies here regarding the dust dissipating ?
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