[ETL]

I’m trying to find other similar examples of this elsewhere but am yet to find anything even close. ie, a series of dots, particularly at right angles to each other. Not that I believe for a second that the image isn’t somehow contrived, or an artifact of the digital photo process as you say. If you have other examples, please post. Thanks.

[Yo-Yo]

I’m trying to find other similar examples of this elsewhere but am yet to find anything even close. ie, a series of dots, particularly at right angles to each other.

If you find the original "V" shape, there's another, smaller one just above and slightly to the left in another crater shadow.

If you zoom in and just scroll around that square patch of high resolution, you will see one or two white dots in just about every dark crater shadow. There just happened to be several dead pixels in a row that just happened to line up with a crater shadow so you can see the "V" shape.

Or maybe it's really the same V shaped UFO that was spotted over Arizona about seventeen years ago, famously known as the Phoenix Lights?

[messierhunter]

Another example from the same “photo” from Google Earth (set to moon):
http://imageshack.com/a/img547/1766/xmij.jpg
It’s likely an artifact in Google Earth itself, not in the original version of the photo. The “right angle” is not unusual at all; you’re looking at the individual pixels here, badly blown up by Google Earth, and making every little collection of individual hot pixels and other individual pixel artifacts look like “sharp angles” and “artificial structures.” What shoddy reporting, why did NO ONE go to the original image archives for Selene? It says it right there in Google Earth where the image came from! Google Earth is not a primary source for ANY of this data. It’s all been recompressed and reprocessed by Google into their moon mosaic. ALWAYS go to the primary source, what happened to true journalism?

Anyway, I’ve gone to the primary source myself and have found the original image.
https://l2db.selene.darts.isas.jaxa.jp/cgi-bin/load_datafile.cgi?t=t&f=DTMTCO_03_01221N230E1428SC&p=1011&s=VWQ5IDQvZ1I5RW52aS9nO0FGRjtP
Google’s image is based on the full resolution of that image from Selene. The above link is just a thumbnail, but I’m going to download the full res thing. It’s about 50 megs but it’s a slow download for me, so be patient and I’ll check the full resolution original.

[messierhunter]

As I suspected, it’s entirely a google processing artifact. It’s not in the original image at all. Here is the full resolution, original image. I took the liberty of converting it to a png file so that most people can open it:
http://dropcanvas.com/bv99x
Here’s a crop from the original overlaid on top of the crappy Google version of the same image projected onto their moon mosaic:
http://imageshack.com/a/img822/8360/b1z.gif
The “perspective” shifts because google moon is projecting the image onto a 3d model of the terrain and rendering it, using the image as a texture. The raw original image does not contain those artifacts, and is in fact much higher quality anyway as you can see.

Mystery solved.