Posted on 12/17/2022 1:57:34 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this stereo scene from Taurus-Littrow valley on the Moon! The color anaglyph features a detailed 3D view of Apollo 17's Lunar Rover in the foreground -- behind it lies the Lunar Module and distant lunar hills. Because the world was going to be able to watch the Lunar Module's ascent stage liftoff via the rover's TV camera, this parking place was also known as the VIP Site. Fifty years ago, in December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hours on the Moon, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. The crew returned with 110 kilograms of rock and soil samples, more than from any of the other lunar landing sites. Cernan and Schmitt are still the last to walk (or drive) on the Moon.
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wow 50 years since we were there. When I was a kid those were a great 10 years from 62-72 for space and the pride we had in America.
So, who’s foot prints?
...and why no stars in the sky, if the moon has near zero atmosphere?
...and why do the shape of the hills look like either a 1980’s video game, or even worse, Photoshopped?
Billionaires are buying SpaceX Starship rides around the moon. NASA has contracted Starship to eventually land on the moon. Let’s see one of them buy a Starship ride that lands and retrieves this moon rover. He could refurbish it into the baddest ride on planet Earth. Later on, since there are other moon rovers still there, they could be refurbished for moon colonies. Heck, you could refurbish and take it to Mars. Imagine the status of the first rover on 2 places off the planet Earth.
Yes, yes, I know the Smithsonian wants them, but if you take it to Mars, the Smithsonian will have a hard time getting it.
Are you being serious? There are exact and correct answers to your questions.
The camera has a filter on, which removes 5/6ths of the light, iirc. The camera just can’tsee the stars. The light of the Sun is intense, and not difused by an atmosphere. Also, because the lack of atmosphere the hill edges aren’t fuzzy, water vapor in the air on Earth, causes fuzzy edges.
yes, serious technical questions.
We are permitted to ask honest questions here.
It is healthy to have a natural sense of curiosity about the world around us. Those who lack this, probably live a dull life.
Answered sufficiently in post seven.
Thank you Grey182
Apollo deniers are a strange sort, and devoid of sufficient knowledge to work through the answers. They are happy with their ignorance. I was merely trying to determine if you were asking legitimate questions or being a boob. I am very pleased that you are on a quest for knowledge and clarification; and, that is worth any investment of time on the part of others.
Yes, Grey182 delivered the goods. Additionally, I would add that the exposure latitude of film allows for only a 1:128 ratio between dark and light. Anything too bright is rendered white with no details recorded on the film; and, anything too dark is rendered black with no details on the film. In sunlight even on the earth, a photographer sets the time and aperture in order to render either the bright, dark, or mid-tone regions of the photo with detail. A neutral grey filter can help a lot.
Notice the the photograph we are discussing looks very grey even though the sunlight surface would be very bright white, much like photographing a concrete parking lot in the summer at high noon. The objective was to show detail of the lunar surface, so the exposure was set to render that bright surface as a mid-tone grey. The intensity of the light coming from the stars is quite low compared to the lunar surface. They made no impression on the film.
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