Posted on 09/27/2021 2:14:00 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Here is one of the most famous pictures from the Moon -- but digitally reversed. Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969 and soon thereafter many pictures were taken, including an iconic picture of Buzz Aldrin taken by Neil Armstrong. The original image captured not only the magnificent desolation of an unfamiliar world, but Armstrong himself reflected in Aldrin's curved visor. Enter modern digital technology. In the featured image, the spherical distortion from Aldrin's helmet has been reversed. The result is the famous picture -- but now featuring Armstrong himself from Aldrin's perspective. Even so, since Armstrong took the picture, the image is effectively a five-decade old lunar selfie. The original visor reflection is shown on the left, while Earth hangs in the lunar sky on the upper right. A foil-wrapped leg of the Eagle lander is prominently visible. Preparations to return humans to the Moon in the next few years include the Artemis program, an international collaboration led by NASA.
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If you lived on the moon Earth would have the same position in the sky every day. Each day being one month long.
The Hollywood special effects folks did a fine job with the whole moon-landing thing. Kudos.
When are we going to get the results of the gravitational lens experiment by the Hubble telescope? I want to see the distorted image reconstituted by a computer. Why haven’t we seen such reconstituted images?
Fine job? They told the astronauts to hop like bunnies instead of walk (for realism), but didn’t give them bunny ears to match. It’s little inconsistencies like this that tell me someone wasn’t paying enough attention to details.
We got to discussing the dust problem on the moon from the rocket blast as they landed I don’t remember the calculations we used but based on how fine and powdery the dust was plus the low gravity it would have taken at the least two days before they could even see outside... Easy to set up a computer simulator to get the answer today.
Its sad to realize just how Communism and the left have been able to infiltrate this country and use Hollywood and the Teachers unions to discredit the accomplishments of this country, NASA, and our fathers, and that some people are actually persuaded by their propaganda.
"NASA Spacecraft Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites"
They went there.
https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/watchwomanonthewall/2011/04/the-45-communist-goals-as-read-into-the-congressional-record-1963.html
“ The Hollywood special effects folks did a fine job with the whole moon-landing thing. Kudos.”
Especially good for 50 year old special effects.
Riiiiiiiiight.
WTF? You think that “based on how fine and powdery the dust was plus the low gravity it would have taken at the least two days before they could even see outside...
Maybe you could tell everyone what exactly would hold up the dust so long, given that there was virtually no atmosphere present?
The dust, even very fine particles, is going to fall ballistically under the influence of lunar gravity, because there is no atmosphere. It clears in a second or less.
“This video could not have been done in a “Hollywood studio” unless they had a giant vacuum chamber, which is ridiculous considering the size, therefore outside pressure on the structure.”
I don’t think that could be built even today.
I might add, a later mission-Apollo15, proved Galileo correct in his theory about objects falling in a vacuum at the same rate, regardless of mass. Astronaut David Scott dropped a hammer and a feather at the same time, they fell at the same rate and hit lunar ground at the same time. We were there.
THEY were there, WE weren’t. 😖
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