LowSix wrote:
Well, i looked at this:
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients ... 80_lrg.pngand i didnt see anything of the sort of luminosity blowout and color saturation of the more extreme examples that float around. "The Living Moon" is NOWHERE on the level of credibility for me, but i will wait until i can find colored clementine images.
(which i might, and will readily admit to)
So let me ask this:
If you admit that Lovell said that the color was like Plaster of Paris, why does his qualified objective survey of it deserve dismissal?
Im sure that if he came back, said it was slate grey, when in reality it was green blue purple and white, he would be summarily fired...or at a minimum censured. Why would he lie?
he would lie if the whole Apollo program was a pr stunt to hide the real space program going on behind the scenes using antigravity propulsion, etc.. I have serious doubts that rocket technology alone could get us to the moon without killing the occupants of the spacecraft, maybe now, but highly doubtful back in the 60's. The LEM was never fully tested, and all of the technology involved at the time was experimental. The Clementine satellite I'm sure was orbiting at least 60 miles off the surface of the moon and you can see how colorful those images are. When we look at the moon, we are seeing it through the shroud of an atmosphere and we are seeing an object without oceans etc.. the further away, the more subtle the colors.
Sorry, not trying to create controversy, just to try to get my point across so u understand it.. take it or leave it..
The USGS moved a lot of their clementine stuff, Im trying to find it now.