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ORIGINAL NASA APOLLO 12 - AS12-47-7009.jpgAS 12-47-7009 - What is this? (1)61 visite
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APOLLO_11_AS_11-37-5455-PCF-LXTT-IPF.jpgAS 11-37-5455 - Here's the "Flare-like light"! (Frame restored and recalibrated; credits: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/LXTT/IPF) 147 visiteThis is an historical picture taken by the NASA - Apollo 11 Astronaut "Buzz" Aldrin from his own window; it forms part of a five-frames panorama and it shows the Lunar Surface just after landing, with the Lunar Module shadow and the Lunar Horizon.
The "Flare-like Light" that is very well visible on the right (Dx) side of the frame, very close to the Horizon, is one of the many "misteries" that were found during the analysis of the whole Apollo - Moon Collection. Said that, the question is (relatively...) "simple": is this "Flare-like Light" a real - and, perhaps, just "temporary" - Feature of the Lunar Surface (a "flare", for instance, like it was originally speculated by Dr Paolo C. Fienga/LXTT/IPF, and then confirmed by a former Member of the Lunar and Planetary Institute), or is it just one of the very many image-artifacts (---> such as, basically, "defects" of the picture caused by some imperfection in the camera lenses and/or in the film itself) that can also be found in the Apollo - Moon Collection?
Of course we, as IPF, do not have a final answer to this question and, apparently, nobody does (even though a former NASA's Image Technician wrote us saying that the "shining light" was a true Surface Feature and, in his opinion, "...the result of Sunlight that was illuminating a distant - but highly reflective - boulder...". An opinion, this one, that we deeply respect but, honestly speaking, that we also consider extremely unlikely: consider, in fact, that no light whatsoever is visible in that precise spot in the frame that follows this one - such as AS 11 37-5456 -; a frame that was taken only a few seconds after AS 11 37-5455. Now, if this "light" was really just a reflection caused by Sunlight illuminating an highly reflective boulder, it is logical and reasonable to assume that the "reflection" should have still been very well visible over there, even a few seconds (and, maybe, also for a few minutes) after the time when "Buzz" took the first picture of his "Window Panorama". But this - we repeat: reasonable and logical - "circumstance", as a matter of fact, did not happen. The Flare-like Light (or the reflection, if you prefer) vanished very quickly. Why? Of course no answer even to this last question was ever given.
Anyway, the "Flare-like Light" (which may also look like a "Metallic Reflection" in the LPI frame) is there and, in a way, it keeps "asking" us to be recognized and identified, beyond any reasonable doubt, for what that it really was. Maybe, in the Future, we shall know more. Or, maybe (and most likely), the "Flare-like Light" shall remain a Lunar Mistery forever...
This bigger picture (which is an Original NASA - APOLLO 11 Spacecraft color frame published on the NASA - Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal with the ID n. AS 11-37-5455) has been additionally processed and then re-colorized in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the NASA - Apollo 11 Lunar Module and then looked outside, towards the Surface and Horizon of the Moon), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team. Different colors, as well as different shades of the same color, mean, among other things, the existence of different Elements (Minerals) present on the Surface of the Moon, each having a different Albedo (---> Reflectivity) and Chemical Composition.
The smaller (inset) picture, is also an Original NASA - APOLLO 11 Spacecraft color frame published by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) on the Apollo Image Atlas with the ID n. AS 11-37-5455. This second picture HAS NOT been additionally processed nor re-colorized by Lunar Explorer Italia.MareKromium
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ORIGINAL_NASA_-_APOLLO_17_-_AS_17-148-22727-A.jpgAS 17-148-22727 - Mother Earth (Absolute Natural Colors; additional process.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunexit Team)95 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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APOLLO_12_AS_12-46-6746-2.jpgAS 12-46-6746 - Blue Sphere on the Lunar Surface (detail)83 visiteAffascinante ed inesplicabile...MareKromium
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APOLLO_16_AS_16-116-18653_(23_April_1972.jpgAS 16-116-18653 - Orange Soil on the Moon? (True Colors - credits: Dr M. Faccin)164 visite...E allora? La Luna davvero un "grigio oceano di polvere" (una "Magnifica Desolazione"), oppure aveva ragione Alan Bean, con le sue "visioni" ed i suoi quadri?!?...
Complimenti al Dr Faccin per l'ennesimo spunto di riflessione!MareKromium
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AS_13-60-8622.jpgAS 13-60-8622 - The "Silver Sphere" (by Dr Marco Faccin)58 visiteChe cos' la "Silver Sphere"? Uno splendido collage fotografico realizzato dal bravissimo Dr Faccin, per guardare, riflettere e porsi altre domande.
E darsi "una" (piccola, ma significativa) risposta: la "Silver Sphere" NON E' un riflesso.MareKromium
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as11-41-6139.jpgAS 11-61-6139 - In the darkness of the Far-Side54 visiteImage Collection: 70mm Hasselblad
Mission: 11
Magazine: 41
Magazine Letter: P
Latitude: 6,0 South
Longitude: 174,5 West
Film Type: 3400
Film Width: 70 mm
Film Color: black & white MareKromium
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as10-28-3989.JPGAS 10-28-3989 - Extra Lunar Object83 visiteChe cosa stiamo guardando?
Impossibile dirlo.
Che cosa NON stiamo guardando?
A nostro parere NON stiamo guardando un frammento/detrito spaziale (ivi inclusa l'ipotesi che si tratti di autentica "spazzatura") proveniente dallo stesso Apollo 10 (il movimento del corpo vagante, come ben si pu vedere montando i tre frames sino ad ottenere un GIF-Movie, del tutto incoerente rispetto al movimento della Navicella Spaziale Americana - a meno che non si pensi che questo "corpo" sia stato scagliato/sparato via dalla medesima...); NON stiamo guardando una minuscola meteora (le fattezze dell'oggetto, sia esterne, sia interne - come ben visibili in questo frame e nel successivo - mal si sposano, a nostro avviso, con il concetto di "roccia vagante"); NON stiamo guardando - detto con un elevato margine di certezza - una Nave Spaziale Aliena (anche se su quest'ultimo punto non si pu mai essere certi di nulla).
Che cosa rimane? Le Vostre idee ed ipotesi saranno BENVENUTE!MareKromium
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as10-27-3930.JPGAS 10-27-3930 - Mare Moscoviense (MULTISPECTRUM; credits: Lunexit)54 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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as12-46-6740.JPGAS 12-46-6740 - The Lunar Module54 visiteCaption NASA:"116:22:29 MT - Rightward of 6739. View past the south (minus-Y) LM strut toward Surveyor III. As Pete mentions at 118:27:12, he mistakenly took the pan at 15-foot focus instead of 74-foot focus".MareKromium
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APOLLO_15_AS_15-96-13063.JPGAS 15-96-13063 - EVA Floodlight near Herodotus "H" and Vallis Schroteri (2)56 visiteImage Collection: 70mm Hasselblad
Mission: 15
Magazine: 96
Magazine Letter: Q
Latitude: 26 North
Longitude: 51 West
Description: EVA FLOODLIGHT
Film Type: SO-368
Film Width: 70 mm
Film Color: color
Nota Lunexit: per che cosa tanto "famosa" la Regione Lunare di Herodotus e della Schroteri Vallis?...MareKromium
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as17-153-23567.jpgAS 17-153-23567 - The "Menelaus Family" (elab. in natural colors by Lunexit)53 visiteImage Collection: 70mm Hasselblad
Mission: 17
Magazine: 153
Magazine Letter: MM
Revolution: 39
Latitude: 17,7 North
Longitude: 15,9 East
Lens Focal Length: 80 mm
Camera Altitude: 108 Km
Sun Elevation (on Local Horizon): 24
Mission Activity: REV 39
Film Type: SO-368
Film Width: 70 mm
Film Color: colorMareKromium
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