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Fran Ridge |
ANOMALOUS
OBJECTS "TOWERS" IN PARACELSUS:
AS15-P -8868
/ Farside Section 141
 "Walls
or towers" imaged by Apollo 15
June 17, 2016 About a month ago, colleague Ananda Sirisena
submitted some images he had found on the internet
that were supposed to have been imaged by Apollo15.
Most of the lunar "anomalies" the Lunascan Project
gets fail to pan out upon closer scrutiny or
analysis, but within a couple of weeks we were able
to confirm that the targets (shown below) were real.
They were found on an Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
image M118769870L, and in high resolution.
 "Structures" in M118769870L
We are still looking for an additional confirming image of the above "structures" in an Apollo image, but so far we haven't found any. Without going into a lot of detail, the objects above were found about 85 km NE of the "towers" we are now discussing, but both within the region of Paracelsus crater on the lunar Far Side!!!!. Persons reading this report should also read the detailed report on M118769870L at http://www.astrosurf.com/lunascan/submittals/sirisena/wall/paracelsus_C.htm At 7 PM, on June 17th, I was able to locate the "twin towers" on an official NASA Apollo image. I had been scanning AS15-P-8868 several times in-between my crowded work schedule and had just gotten to about the middle of LRS7 (Left-Right Scan segment 7) when they literally leaped out at me. I did a screen print (see below). The support data for AS15-P-8868 states there were 8 tiles, so those tiles are larger than the 14 strips I was scanning, and I estimated that the targets of interest probably resided in tile 3. Ananda Sirisena confirmed this and downloaded all 8 tiles in .tif format.  screenprint
of AS15-P-8868
The Apollo 15 Panoramic Camera was in orbit around the Moon at 96 km altitude and the sun elevation was 14.0 degrees. Within hours of my discovery,
Ananda Sirisena had found the same identical
"towers" on an additional Apollo image, AS15-P-8873.
This was a very important discovery. Now we had two
different and very high resolution Apollo Panoramic
Camera images of the "towers" or whatever they
were/are. The difference in viewing angles, as well
as the sun elevation and the data from the shadows
cast by these objects, gives us the opportunity and
the ability to calculate the size and height of
these very interesting features. What were once
thought to be shadows in craters that were possibly
photoshopped to get straighter edges and look
artificial, turned out to be exactly what they
appeared to be in the unredacted NASA Apollo images.
And instead of shadows in craters the objects appear
to be standing right in the middle of a flat area
(exactly like the structures in the M frame of the
other "structures" mentioned earlier) that resemble
a wide shallow depression. It was almost as if the
objects were in the center of some type of activity
zone or "mined" area.
 The LRO WAC (Wide Angle Camera) chart below shows Paracelsus "C", a satellite crater of Paracelsus. Paracelsus "C" is where the "structures" are, confirmed by LRO, but not yet found on any Apollo image. And somewhere in Paracelsus proper lie the "towers", as much as 85 km away, but not yet found on an LRO image. But all we need are the coords to do that and to nail down the actual distance between the two sets of anomalous targets.  Cropped version of LAC/WAC Chart
103, Paracelsus "C" centered.
This puts the targets in Ridge
Section 141 on the lunar Far Side:
http://www.astrosurf.com/lunascan/0141dir.htm LRO
The best-available evidence would be images from the
100,000+ frames of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
taken circa 2010. These are the highest resolution to
date and range in quality all the way up to 0.5
m/pixel. APOLLO METRIC & PANORAMIC
CAMERAS
The Metric Camera (mapping camera) obtained pictures
of the surface covering 165 kilometers on a side, with
a horizontal resolution of 20 meters, based on a
nominal spacecraft altitude of 110 kilometers. The
Panoramic Camera obtained pictures of narrow strips,
20 kilometers wide in the direction of spacecraft
motion and 320 kilometers long across the spacecraft's
ground track. These pictures had extremely high
resolution, showing features just 1 to 2 meters
across. Photographs with both cameras were taken so
that there was substantial overlap in the ground
coverage of consecutive photos. This allowed the
technique of stereo photography to be used to
determine the heights of features shown in the photos.
Under ideal conditions, the heights of these features
could be determined to an accuracy of better than 10
meters. The results of this stereo photography were
used in producing topographic maps.In regard to the current analysis of the images in question, here is the graphic representation of what we now have:
The investigation continues. Fran Ridge,
Coordinator, The Lunascan Project Member, Society for Planetary & SETI Research skyking42@gmx.com |
