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Originally posted by rdunk
reply to post by Soylent Green Is People
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In this photo, looks like surface structures!
No problems, we all have a life outside ATS (I hope )
Originally posted by arianna
My apologies to ArMaP for not replying but over the last two weeks I have been busy on other projects and commitments.
That would be great.
In future, I will apply text to some of the images indicating what I see.
I haven't looked at the more recent images, but I will do it.
There are no tests being applied here but I would be very grateful and appreciative if members would examine the images very carefully to see if they recognize any of the shapes or objects showing in the enhanced views.
This is where our opinions diverge the most, because I don't see how any change of an image to avoid recognition of something could be reversed without access to the original image.
The 'forced' enhancement procedure I have applied to the images is deliberate and necessary in order to penetrate the layer of 'moondust' that prohibits recognition of surface objects in the published original.
"Chemical" photography, digital or both?
I have been involved in photography and image processing for over fifty years therefore I should know what I am reviewing in the images.
You see, (most of) the people that do not see the things you do have the same feelings about what you say. While it is plain for you to see something, what we (those that do not see the structures you see) see is also plain to us. For us, the description is correct.
Also, I am getting a little tired of some members who keep maintaining that all there is on the surface is as described when it is plain to see from the enhanced versions that the details contained in the description are incorrect.
The same can be said about those that see the structures, because when you say something like "the details contained in the description are incorrect" you are presenting your point of view as the real one.
If these members wish to carry on with a closed-mind approach that is their perogative.
This was established only for those that see things that way, you cannot say that something was established when some people accept it but other do not.
The 'dashed' lines are not boulder trails and what appears to be 'craters' are not craters. This has been established by viewing the enhanced close-up views where it can be seen that the 'trails' and 'crater' shapes are giving the appearance of being built structures.
You can always post two images.
Originally posted by arianna
There are so many structures showing it would be a shame to place text on the image.
Originally posted by dcmb1409
Professional, intermediates, and novices in topography can see that there are no structures in these original images.
Have you had any answer from those scientists?
Originally posted by arianna
Anyway, I have sent this image and some other enhanced images to a number of eminent scientists I am in contact with to get them to evaluate the detail that is showing on the lunar surface.
For a given crater the Sun is at an elevation a. The quantity measured is the shadow length s. It is then trivial to work out the height h of the crater, measured from the crater floor to the top of the crater rim.
There is a subtly here though. The shadow length observed will only be the same as the measured length s if the crater is viewed directly from above. Otherwise the shadow is foreshortened, and the projected length we measure is shorter than the true length. We need to compensate for this factor, so divide the apparent length of the shadow by the cosine of the crater's selenographic longitude to get the true length.
So, when you said "In future, I will apply text to some of the images indicating what I see" you were only bluffing, or did you change your mind?
Originally posted by arianna
I offer no explanation text as the features showing in the image are sufficient.
Too many questions, not enough answers.