Updated 10.10.2013 Know thy Moon! Our beautiful, everchanging satellite, home to some spaceflight debris and who knows what on the other side! Be it as it may, this article deals mainly with the more esoteric theories on Moon. For more factual information than shown here, consult e.g. the excellent site in Wikipedia. Check also some beautiful photos of the Moon, courtesy of El País.
MOON DATA
Circumference: 10,921km (equatorial)
Diameter: 3474km (about 1/4 that of the Earth)
Distance from Earth: The average distance from Earth to the Moon is 384,400 km (238,900 miles). So if you could drive a car along an imaginary freeway to the moon, and you drove 100km/h (62mi/h), it would take you around six months to get there. So far, and yet so close! And as we all know, the Moon and Sun appear the same size seen from the Earth, so that under certain circumstances it is even possible to mistake one for the other.
MOON, SUN AND EARTH
The Moon is unique among natural satellites in that it experiences a
stronger gravitational attraction to the Sun than to its primary, the
Earth. As a consequence, its path is always concave to the Sun. It could almost
be argued that this makes the Moon a planet, orbiting the Sun, rather
than a satellite of the Earth. Anyway, here is a good animation of the interaction of these three.
A nice explanatory video Physical Science9.2b states: "As the Earth spins, the Moon appears to rise and set. And the spinning of the Earth is a more significant factor in the appearant motion of the Moon because the Moon goes completely around the Earth once a month, but it rises and set every day as the Earth rotates, or just about every day."
Craters, maria and the mapping of the Moon
There are roughly 300,000 craters wider than 1 km on the Moon's near side alone, and apparently the battered, densely cratered other side is even worse in this respect. The crater Tycho is perhaps the most prominent of these, clearly visible on the near side (there will soon be a separate article on Tycho in this blog). Quite interesting things to be seen there... But whatever we will some day find there or anywhere else on the Moon, please visit first the excellent Kelso's Corner to see how the Moon was mapped!
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| Apollo landing sites (click to enlarge) |
The Soviet Union's Luna programme was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned spacecraft in 1959. First manned Moon landing was of course on July 20th, 1969, and first moonwalk by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong on the 21st. After that first landing there has been five more, with the latest in 1972 by Apollo 17. Only unmanned landings after that - officially.
Many of us ask why haven't we built a permanent base on the Moon. Perhaps the answer really is, as proposed, this simple: it is already occupied, and we are not welcome there. There will soon be a separate article here called This Side of the Moon - about UFOs seen flying around, to and from the Moon, and other things we can see there.
FAR SIDE OF THE MOON
a.k.a. the dark side. Tidal forces from Earth have slowed down the Moon's rotation so that the same side is always facing the Earth. Most of the other side is never visible from the Earth. First photographed by the Soviet Luna 3 probe in 1959. The far side has a battered, densely cratered appearance with few maria, and according to some theories, alien bases.
NASA's Lunar Orbiter program managed to map some 99% of the Moon's surface in the 1960's. Lots of images taken of course, but as air brushing does occur, most people get to see only what we are allowed to see. Luckily there are original photos/videos that show us more. Near Zeeman Crater for example there is/was a huge alien structure (video courtesy by UFOs Now) that looks like a hangar of sorts with a perfect rectangular slot. Where the structure used to be, there is now a quite poorly done air brushing that doesn't even try to imitate the surrounding texture.
Karl Wolfe
Sergeant Karl Wolfe was in the Air Force for about 4 years, 1964-1968. In 1965 while working at a NSA facility in Langley, Virginia, he was shown photographs of the Moon (taken that year by the Lunar Orbiter) that showed detailed artificial structures. So these photos were taken prior to the Apollo landing in 1969. He was told that recent enhanced images of the Moon had surprisingly, yet clearly shown structures on the surface of the dark side of the Moon. Structures that definitely were not created by natural means, such as meteors, or ancient collisions with other heavenly bodies. The structures were created by intelligent beings. - Disclosure Project(2m13s) - Examiner - UFO Casebook -
Structures on the Moon
Besides the structure on the far side of the Moon, there are socalled Moon anomalies on this side as well. With today's technology anyone really gets to have a better look at the Moon than just a few years ago, and so perhaps in the future it will be quite impossible to keep such secrets. But there are also old pictures that haven't been air brushed - in old books that UFO researchers can look into like Scott Waring, author of UFO Sightings Daily, has done. So if you can get hold of Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Near Side of the Moon, check there pages 265, 278 and 281.
Neil Armstrong had once told an associate that once they stepped out of the lunar module on the moon, they were literally surrounded by ET vehicles at the Sea of Tranquility. But though he too had to keep a lid on the truth, there is evidence that something like that might have taken place. The much-talked-about Tower on the Moon can be seen with a good telescope (see below) - and shadows tell a tale!
Cameras and telescopes to use
They're not cheap, but still affordable for many of us: a good set of camera and telescope (that usually comes with a tripod). A tripod is of course a must since it is impossible to hold the camera or telescope still enough to get a good picture/video. And there is always the interference of the atmosphere that makes the task difficult - it wobbles all the time and it makes videos filmed from Earth blurry, no matter how much magnification one has.
Anyway, here are some combos in practice:
Panasonic HDC-SD90 Digital video camera + Sky Watcher telescope
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B&W CCD video camera + an 11" amateur telescope
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GOOGLE EARTH MOON
To get the Moon in Google Earth, find Moon in the Planets. And then start zooming in! You can get suprisingly near in some places, e.g.here 30°58'12" N 146°11'05" E - or 31°01'07" N 145°24'38" E - NW of Mare Moscoviense on far side of the Moon. See those oblong things? What could they be? Then again, you see just blurry things almost everywhere on the near side. Why is that? Nevertheless, with your own telescope, your only censorship is the atmospheric interference - but you can't see the far side...
NASA's Lunar Orbiter program managed to map some 99% of the Moon's surface in the 1960's. Lots of images taken of course, but as air brushing does occur, most people get to see only what we are allowed to see. Luckily there are original photos/videos that show us more. Near Zeeman Crater for example there is/was a huge alien structure (video courtesy by UFOs Now) that looks like a hangar of sorts with a perfect rectangular slot. Where the structure used to be, there is now a quite poorly done air brushing that doesn't even try to imitate the surrounding texture.
Karl Wolfe
Sergeant Karl Wolfe was in the Air Force for about 4 years, 1964-1968. In 1965 while working at a NSA facility in Langley, Virginia, he was shown photographs of the Moon (taken that year by the Lunar Orbiter) that showed detailed artificial structures. So these photos were taken prior to the Apollo landing in 1969. He was told that recent enhanced images of the Moon had surprisingly, yet clearly shown structures on the surface of the dark side of the Moon. Structures that definitely were not created by natural means, such as meteors, or ancient collisions with other heavenly bodies. The structures were created by intelligent beings. - Disclosure Project(2m13s) - Examiner - UFO Casebook -
Structures on the Moon
Besides the structure on the far side of the Moon, there are socalled Moon anomalies on this side as well. With today's technology anyone really gets to have a better look at the Moon than just a few years ago, and so perhaps in the future it will be quite impossible to keep such secrets. But there are also old pictures that haven't been air brushed - in old books that UFO researchers can look into like Scott Waring, author of UFO Sightings Daily, has done. So if you can get hold of Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Near Side of the Moon, check there pages 265, 278 and 281.
Neil Armstrong had once told an associate that once they stepped out of the lunar module on the moon, they were literally surrounded by ET vehicles at the Sea of Tranquility. But though he too had to keep a lid on the truth, there is evidence that something like that might have taken place. The much-talked-about Tower on the Moon can be seen with a good telescope (see below) - and shadows tell a tale!
Cameras and telescopes to use
They're not cheap, but still affordable for many of us: a good set of camera and telescope (that usually comes with a tripod). A tripod is of course a must since it is impossible to hold the camera or telescope still enough to get a good picture/video. And there is always the interference of the atmosphere that makes the task difficult - it wobbles all the time and it makes videos filmed from Earth blurry, no matter how much magnification one has. Anyway, here are some combos in practice:
Panasonic HDC-SD90 Digital video camera + Sky Watcher telescope
x
B&W CCD video camera + an 11" amateur telescope
x
GOOGLE EARTH MOON
To get the Moon in Google Earth, find Moon in the Planets. And then start zooming in! You can get suprisingly near in some places, e.g.here 30°58'12" N 146°11'05" E - or 31°01'07" N 145°24'38" E - NW of Mare Moscoviense on far side of the Moon. See those oblong things? What could they be? Then again, you see just blurry things almost everywhere on the near side. Why is that? Nevertheless, with your own telescope, your only censorship is the atmospheric interference - but you can't see the far side...
THE HOLLOW MOON
but the original one’s from the 1960′s clearly show this object in this video.
Original Post from: http://ufosnow.blogspot.fi/2012/08/huge-alien-structure-revealed-far-side.html
Copyright SoBloggers - All Rights Reserved Zeeman crater (at long.73A08'30 SA & lat.145A40'40 W) huge alien structure, Images are from the 1960's Lunar orbiter Mosaic (blog video5m49s)
Original Post from: http://ufosnow.blogspot.fi/2012/08/huge-alien-structure-revealed-far-side.html
Copyright SoBloggers - All Rights Reserved Zeeman crater (at long.73A08'30 SA & lat.145A40'40 W) huge alien structure, Images are from the 1960's Lunar orbiter Mosaic (blog video5m49s)
Long: 73° 08′ 30 S Lat: 145° 40′ 40 W
Original Post from: http://ufosnow.blogspot.fi/2012/08/huge-alien-structure-revealed-far-side.html
Copyright SoBloggers - All Rights Reserved
Original Post from: http://ufosnow.blogspot.fi/2012/08/huge-alien-structure-revealed-far-side.html
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Hollow Moon
More on this to follow...
Articles on Moon in this blog
Main(this one) - Mare Moscoviense - Near Side & UFOs - Tycho -
Updated 10.10.2013
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| Crater Tycho - diameter 85 km, depth 4.8 km |
Before It's News - Kelso's Corner: Mapping Of The Moon - Physical Science 9.2b(byDerekOwens) - UFOs Now - Universe Today - YouTube:SunEarthMoonAnimation(20s) - Wiki:MoonFacts - Wiki:Moon'sMaria - Wiki:FarSideOfTheMoon - Wiki:HollowMoon -
