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Originally posted by franspeakfree
reply to post by GoldenFleece
Thanks for that, I am trying to obtain the facts without all the backchat and trolling. Can anyone from NASA verify without prejudice that these images are factual and correct? if so we can then start from there.
What I see in the photo looks very fragile and amateurish and I would be interested to find out its function/purpose. For the record I have not seen this photo before.
I also wanted to add in regards to the undisturbed soil it is possible that the soil on the moon is not like our soil on earth ie it could be entirely plausible to suggest that the soil on the moon is compacted and that when the craft landed, instead of leaving an impression it may have scuffed away the dirt. That I believe is possible no? If not could you provide some form of evidence to suggest that if a heavy object was to land on the moon it would make an imprint in to the soil
[edit on 16-3-2010 by franspeakfree]
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by bochen181
OK...now that you've posted those YouTube junk videos, I can only assume you're punking us, and trolling....or else you actually believe this nonsense, and just won't bother to do any actual research and learning!
The "wires" crap has been explained to death.
Those are the antenna on the back of the PLSS.
Here, looky looky:
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by bochen181
You say that the DEM you used is high resolution data from the LRO but the file name is Apollo_15_Hadley_Jan_2007. LRO got to the Moon last year.
You are using a low resolution dataset. Probably the data derived from the Clementine mission.
www.christian-woehler.de...
It is not surprising it does not match the images taken at the site.
The sun is hitting the LEM more or less from the same direction in all the pictures. Another thing that bothers me from you own imageing post is that, on the one hand NASA did a pretty good job of their "papier Mache" backdrop of the mountains at GROUND level, and then mess up as to where to stick the lander, it doesn't make any sense at all. Now, you didn't prove that NASA altered or cropped images, because they have already stated that they did crop images and alter for presentation. If you think it should not have been done, why not ask them why. Why were the Ruskies not bothered enough to ask questions at the time, and since.
Originally posted by bochen181
The "sunlight" / "spotlight" has swapped sides in these 3 apollo 12 photos..
These three photos were taken mere hours apart on three consecutive rolls of film (Apollo 11&12 EVA's were not anywhere as long or extended as the later Apollo 14+ missions)
history.nasa.gov...
history.nasa.gov...
history.nasa.gov...
Apollo 12 LEM sits on edge of crater.
In top 2 photos the sunlight is coming from the left. In the bottom photo,
taken from down in the crater, the LEM, the dish and the flag are in the same positions, but the sunlight is now from the right and the LEM has turned 90 degrees from the top position. This is impossible!
I believe the same "LEM and Dish" were actually either scale models or 2d sprites that were convinently reused in other photos that needed the backdrop.. Hence the discrepancies... It is not like I haven't proven NASA didn't edit/crop/doctor OTHER photos before!
Originally posted by aik4on
Originally posted by sotp
I'm as entitled to voice my opinion here as you are.
Yes but you should also be prepared to have that opinion mocked when it's based on no firm evidence than your own imagination.
I'm not, like a lot of hoax believers, saying that they faked it because they couldn't actually do it. I'm saying they might have faked it simply to make sure the public did not see something they didn't want them to see. That is all.
And there might be a shapeshifting invisible elf living in my potting shed but there's no actual evidence to suggest there is.
Your 'idea' is just as much tinfoil hat territory as the 'we never went to the moon' brigade.
Show me any credible, scientific evidence that supports your claim and I mean scientific, not some rambling conspiracy crapola website or YouTube homebrew video compilation.
Originally posted by smurfy
Why were the Ruskies not bothered enough to ask questions at the time, and since.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by kinda kurious
The camera could be removed from the chest mount.
Focus and exposure could be adjusted by the astronaut. They didn't always get it right
history.nasa.gov...
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by kinda kurious
The camera could be removed from the chest mount.
Focus and exposure could be adjusted by the astronaut. They didn't always get it right
history.nasa.gov...
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by bochen181
Don't you understand?
The file you used was last modified on June 1, 2007. The the LRO was launched in 2009. The DEM you used is not from the LRO. The only other DEM I am aware of is from Clementine.
.....it was moon rock, ostensibly retrieved by Soviet Luna landers which is often cited as proof of the veracity of NASA obtained samples.
In these six Apollo spaceflights twelve men walked on the Moon. These missions returned a wealth of scientific data and 381.7 kilograms (842 lb) of lunar samples.
Compared to:
Luna 16 101 g 1970
Luna 20 55 g 1972
Luna 24 170 g 1976
The Russians were and are big exporters of grain, as your link says 1972 was a bad year for them, so they bought grain, even though they are big players in the international market..crafty! but nothing to do with 1969 For instance. Saturn V's blueprints are held on microfilm at the Marshall space flight centre, and in any case who needs them now? as for Moonrock, how far does 100 Russian grams of Moonrock go? You are obviously enthusiastic about your subject, but therein you argue with yourself, as in the Saturn V rocket that will help you to the Moon, except that that it was never used to go to the Moon, according to you, so why reminise??
Originally posted by bochen181
Originally posted by smurfy
Why were the Ruskies not bothered enough to ask questions at the time, and since.
The Soviet and US moon programmes were complementary - it was moon rock, ostensibly retrieved by Soviet Luna landers which is often cited as proof of the veracity of NASA obtained samples. This is regardless of the fact that moon rock is relatively easily found on earth and that Von Braun went on a little Antarctic expedition in 1967 - the perfect place to find moon rock. Why would he do that at such a crucial phase in his greatest project to go and get the real thing? It's worth noting that all lunar rock samples are severely contaminated:
www.space.com...
Back to US/Soviet deals. It's worth noting that the US accidentally gave away millions of tons of grain to the Soviets in 1972:
www.openi.co.uk...
Other deals concerning transfers of technology would be much easier to conceal. The Saturn series of rockets was a hugely reliable heavy lifter rocket that came out of no where. Gemini, based on converted Titan II ICBM missiles had a history of spectacular failures, but still lived on into the next century in an evolved form.
Meanwhile, the Russians had a track record of hugely reliable heavy lifter rockets. I would suggest to you that perhaps the Saturn V was built, in part, with Russian technology. Interesting that the Saturn V blueprints and schematics have been "lost", along with the all the rest of the Apollo technology, all the original photographs from the missions, and all the videotape... So basically everything, from NASA's most golden moment, was carelessly, lost... Maybe it fell down the back of the sofa, who knows? Both Atlas and Titan lived on for decades despite a chequered past, but Saturn simply got lost and disappeared. When looking for a replacement for the Space Shuttle, why aren't they building Saturn rockets? All the hard work has already been done. Perhaps their licensing agreement with the Russians has expired.
[edit on 16-3-2010 by bochen181]
Timeframe: The new Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project (LMMP) Web site, available in late fall 2010, will build integrated data sets from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), and other lunar missions over the next two years. The USGS generated maps will be available on that Web site.