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NASA has, however, offered up a consolation prize for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission — the agency has taken the best available broadcast television footage and contracted with a digital restoration firm to enhance it, so that the public can see the first moonwalk in more detail than ever before.
Originally posted by DJW001
Here's an actual color photo of the Moon, taken by myself a couple of months ago. Happy?
Thought not.
So...what's your problem with NASA? Why do you think they're lying to the public and cover up their discoveries? You've got to help me out here, because I can't think of a single reason....
it seems you didn't pay close attention to all the details mentioned in that last link... so i'll ask simply, what is the colour of the moon?
Originally posted by DJW001
Now what color is water really? Is there some fakery here?
edit on 10-11-2011 by DJW001 because: (no reason given)
Quite frankly... that has to be the worst crappiest picture of the moon I have ever seen... why even bother?
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by mcrom901
it seems you didn't pay close attention to all the details mentioned in that last link... so i'll ask simply, what is the colour of the moon?
Based on my years of looking at it, I can tell you that it is grey. However, when viewed from sun angles only possible from near the lunar surface, it takes on a coppery sheen.
Originally posted by DJW001
You're just used to looking at the rubbish scans you base your nonsense on.
You know perfectly well that Clementine took false color photos, and I know for a fact you know what that means.
VISIBLE LIGHT [Normal Light]
High-Resolution Camera
This 1.1-kg camera operates at visible wavelengths (0.415 to 0.75 µm) with silicon CCD technology combined with a compact, lightweight image intensifier.
To provide reliable, solid-state, cost-effective imaging in the near ultraviolet,
visible, and near-infrared regions of the spectrum (from 0.3 to 1.0 µm), LLNL designed and built a medium-resolution, 0.426-kg camera that uses silicon charge-coupled device
(CCD) technology. For Clementine, this camera was combined with a six position spectral filter wheel for remote sensing applications and, specifically, for mineral typing studies of the Moon. The image below shows the African continent imaged by the ultraviolet/visible camera at five different wavelengths on a clear day from a distance of 384,000 km.
And who do you think are to you critique my photograph?
Originally posted by mcrom901
reply to post by nv4711
follow the evidence & question authority...
jokes re LGM doesn't cut it...
Originally posted by JimOberg
Originally posted by 1questioner
reply to post by nv4711
Ummm...let's see if I can think of one beef... Oh yeah, how about losing or destroying all the original video footage shot on the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts.
Either NASA is lying about that (Which is what I suspect.), or they are the most incompetent government agency in the history of mankind!
It's no mystery to me why people distrust NASA.
There is a third possibility you should open your mind to.
Your mind is full of delusional, malicious fantasies.
First, the astronauts never shot 'video footage' on the Moon. They had one still camera, and a 16-mm cine camera set up in the LM window, running automatically -- whose images still exist and are fully available.
Second, no scenes from ANYWHERE are gone -- all televised video recorded during live transmission exists and is available.
SOME sequences of the live TV during the initial crew descent to the surface were recorded both at the receiving site in Australia, and then converted live to US TV format and rebroadcast there immediately -- and recorded, permanently and openly.
The original signal was recorded, and folks there recall it looked sharper than the converted images. THOSE recordings came up missing. But these are the same activities ALSO observed by the 16-mm cine camera, which showed them in even GREATER detail than either TV format.
The reality here differs greatly from common myths. Make this a 'teachanble moment' and dispel delusions that have polluted your mind.
None of this substracts from possible substantive criticisms of NASA.
Then, of course, there's THIS idiot:
Originally posted by Pimander
There are leaks and whistleblowers occasionally. Then there is a campaign to discredit the whistleblower or evidence. Then you all forget again.
Did you believe them when they claimed to "lose" the original Apollo 11 landing tapes? Would even an idiot do that? Would even an idiot believe they were "lost"? Not this idiot.
edit on 10-11-2011 by JimOberg because: add this idiot
"When we sent our camera up on the mission, everything about it was a first and a big unknown," said Richard Nafzger, an engineer with NASA who was involved in the original transmission of the Apollo 11 images to Earth and is now part of the search to find them. "Would the camera work? Would we get TV of that first step? We just didn't know what to expect.
"In the same way, we're doing a kind of massive tape and document search that's never been done before," Nafzger said in a recent interview. "We might discover the tapes tomorrow, or we might reach a point where we have to say we can't go any further. Right now, I would have to tell you their fate is pretty much a mystery."
Originally posted by Reptius
Allow me to sum up why I personally don't like NASA. They've been planing manned mission to mars since 1969 and when the finally sent something there , what was it? The Mars Rover. Now It's cool that they sent the mars rover there but it's nowhere's close to equaling a human being.
Originally posted by mcrom901
what about from outside our own atmosphere?
"A satisfying rebuke to the TLP naysayers was recently delivered by JPL's B. Buratti at the October 1999 meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Padua, Italy. Her specific TLP occurred on April 23, 1994. At that time, about one hundred amateur astronomers noticed a 40-minute darkening near the edge of the bright lunar crater Aristarchus. Happily, when this hundred fold "illusion" took place, the lunar satellite Clementine was mapping the area around Aristarchus. Defying the dogmatists, Buratti scrutinized the Clementine data again. Sure enough, Aristarchus had really turned redder after the TLP reported by the amateur astronomers."