Chinese Rover Reaches The Far Side Of The Moon! Chang'e 4

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Once again the Chinese have a new lander on the Moon with a fresh set of wheels.   This past week the Chang'e 4 lander with the Yutu 2 rover in tow touched down on the far side of the moon.   This is the first time any space agency has achieved this goal.  The color photos show what is a brown regolith as shown by NASA in its Moonrise images during the Apollo era images. There are not any noticeable anomalies in the immediate area as the prior mission Chang'e 3 landed in what seemed to be a debris field of ancient Moon inhabitants.  I will keep you posted if anything new comes up from the immediate area.  I have linked all of the photographs on the WUITS website.  

As always I am sorry for the lack of videos.  I thank all of you who have stood by the channel and come to the website to read and contribute to all of the great Space news and personal finds of others.  The forum really has taken off.  I will be back with a tribute video to our good friend Jose Escamilla who passed away this December.  His space movies were amazing and so much inspiration to me starting my own YouTube channel and expanding my research.  

Rest In Peace Jose Escamilla.  I do hope your journey takes you to the stars! 

Image Credits: China National Space Administration (CNSA)

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The Beautiful Blue Ina Crater On The Moon

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I myself had not been introduced to the Ina Crater and its amazing blue hue until our Forum Administrator Todd wrote his forum page about it!  You want to make sure you check out the link to the forum so you can see all of Todds files in the .png full format.  I have adjusted them down to JPG for the article. There is so much still to learn about our own planet and the Moon.  I hope that we can build the base that whipers around Washington have been talking about since the election of Donald Trump to the presidency.  Imagine what is there to find in all of the strange areas and what look to be abandoned mining facilites that we have found over all the years. (See previous Moon articles).  The helium 3 alone on the moon is worth looking into mining.  Personally I feel as if the moon was placed in its current possition for a reason by a very advanced civilization.  Everything is so perfect how we have solar and lunar eclipses that look like no others on any of the planets around us.  The distance and size away from Earth is no coincidence.  Various scientfic experiments speak to the Moon ringing like a "bell" which NASA now attributes to "Moonquakes".

YouTube User:  WhatsUpInTheSky37  

Have you seen the amazing bright blue crater on the Moon?  I hadn't until one of the Administrators at our website whatsupinthesky.com Todd did an amazing job formatting these images from various sources from Apollo and LROC and shared them on our forum at WUITS http://www.whatsupinthesky.com/index.php/forum/the-moon/3145-ina-from-apollo-lroc#_=_

Here are the links to the images as the appear right to left on the top bar during the video..  This ones worth a good look!

http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/apollo/AS17_Hasselblad%20(70%20mm)/list#AS17-152-23287
http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/apollo/AS17_Hasselblad%20(70%20mm)/list#AS17-152-23286
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/apollo/view?camera=P&image_name=AS15-P-0176
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/apollo/view?camera=P&image_name=AS15-P-0181
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_lroc/LRO-L-LROC-2-EDR-V1.0/M116282876RE
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_lroc/LRO-L-LROC-2-EDR-V1.0/M119808916LE
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc/view_lroc/LRO-L-LROC-2-EDR-V1.0/M119808916RE

Images:  Make sure you goto the forum post to see the .png files and download them.. http://www.whatsupinthesky.com/index.php/forum/the-moon/3145-ina-from-apollo-lroc#_=_  Todd did a great job!

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Lunar Object Thought to be Apollo 10 Debris, Taken First by Apollo 8

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There are three Apollo 10 70mm frames which show some kind of debris above the Moon. The frame identification numbers are AS10-28-3988, AS10-28-3989 and AS10-28-3990. The pictures were taken just above the far side crater of Ventris. The notes on the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal reference that the object is "almost certainly" a piece of mylar insulation that tore off from the top hatch as mentioned by John Young at 118:41:31. To me, the object resembles a chunk of dry wall. Below are crops from each frame showing the object in question.

NASA original here

NASA original here

NASA original here

I myself, in the past, had thought that the explaination was fairly resonable, or I thought it might have been a piece of accumulated ice from the spacecraft. Well, it appears it's not. Below is an Apollo 8 70mm hasselblad shot (AS08-13-2319) of the far side crater Aitken, the deepest crater on the moon located along the northern rim of the south pole. Below is a small version processed from the NASA/JSC/ASU raw tif scan.

NASA/JSC/Arizona State University original 

When I originally looked at the Apollo 8 scan full frame, I noticed a prominent white spec in the upper right corner. When enlarged, you probably already guessed, it appears to be the same rogue object that was taken by Apollo 10 about five months later. A larger, enhanced version from the NASA/JSC/ASU scan below.

NASA/JSC/Arizona State University original

 Update 06/01/16:

I rotated the cropped version of AS08-13-2319 180° and turned it backwards to match the Apollo 10 perspective of the object (below). It's likely the Apollo 8 image shows the opposite side. Compare this one with the cropped version of AS10-28-3988 (top). The object appears to hover somewhere between the craters Ventris and the westen edge of Aitken on the Lunar far side. 

Other relevant links below:

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS08-13-2319

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/images/aimg/ii_033_h3.jpg

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lola-20100409-aitken.html

http://history.nasa.gov/ap10fj/photos/28-o.htm

The Strange Terrain of the Descartes Highlands

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Apollo 16’s Orion landed (after about six hours) in what was named the Descartes Highlands, a bumpy region north of Descartes crater, featuring the Cayley formation, overlapping plains once created by volcanic flow. Descartes crater is an ancient impact crater, so collapsed and worn, that over time it has become more of a bumpy mountainous region. The Apollo 16 panoramic frames AS16-P-4558, AS16-P-4559, and AS16-P-4560 were taken between Descartes Crater and the Apollo 16 landing site 50 km north in the Descartes Highlands.

These panoramic frames in particular are littered with strange and unique topography. There are groups of what appear to be structural complexes and smaller unique formations present which generally don’t match the standard topographical model local to the region. I have processed some examples below from the NASA/JSC/ASU raw tif tiles.

Below, from AS16-P-4558, of Descartes Crater, a winding row of ascending levels with some strange formations on the embankment.

(Cropped from AS16-P-4558, processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University raw tif tile 4.)

One of the unusual formations enlarged below. Whether it is a geologic formation or an ariftical construct, its form appears to be exotic.

(Cropped from AS16-P-4558, processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University raw tif tile 4.)

Below, an enlargement of what appears to be a structure (center) just under the embankment edge. There also appears to be smaller structures on top and a “bridge” or "ramp" connecting to it. The structure has dark square markings along the side, resembling hanger entrances.

(Cropped from AS16-P-4558, processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University raw tif tile 4.)

The image below is from AS16-P-4559, just east of Descartes in the highlands. The highland rise appears to be one complex of solid structure.

(Cropped from AS16-P-4559, processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University raw tif tile 2.)

Below, enlarged examples from the image above.

(Cropped from AS16-P-4559, processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University raw tif tile 2.)

(Cropped from AS16-P-4559, processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University raw tif tile 2.)

Also from AS16-P-4559, two sections that resemble the topography of city blocks. A blemish artifact is also present (below).

(Crop fromrom AS16-P-4558, processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University raw tif tile 4.)

The images below are from AS16-P-4560, close to the Apollo 16 landing site in the Descartes highlands. They show a series of unique formations and apparent structures.

(Cropped from AS16-P-4560, processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University raw tif tile 5.)

(Cropped from AS16-P-4560, processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University raw tif tile 5.)

Below, two roughly opposing triangular patches of structure with a center plain.

(Cropped from AS16-P-4560, processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University raw tif tile 3.)

Enlarged from above.

(Cropped from AS16-P-4560, processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University raw tif tile 3.)

(Cropped from AS16-P-4560, processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University raw tif tile 3.)

Other relevant links:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_16/landing_site/

http://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/0748/plate-1.pdf

Structures Near Vitruvius?

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I think among some of the best Apollo imagery, the Apollo panoramics that were shot of the Taurus / Littrow valley and the surrounding areas near Vitruvius crater, are perhaps the very best. The solid exposures and unique topography of the area make for a really interesting series of images. The series I’m referring to is from about AS17-P-2300 to AS17-P-2321 taken during orbit 15. I have posted a number of images in the forum from this particular series (below).

http://www.whatsupinthesky.com/index.php/forum/the-moon/1144-the-taurus-littrow-valley-apollo-17-landing-site-as17-p-2314#2377

http://www.whatsupinthesky.com/index.php/forum/the-moon/1667-lunar-ruins-near-vitruvius-crater-in-as17-p-2311#3899

http://www.whatsupinthesky.com/index.php/forum/the-moon/1173-lunar-complex-east-of-vitruvius-in-as17-p-2313#2468

http://www.whatsupinthesky.com/index.php/forum/the-moon/1126-as17-p-2307-astonishing-topography-present-in-littrow#2340

http://www.whatsupinthesky.com/index.php/forum/the-moon/1116-complex-ruins-near-vitruvius-in-as17-p-2303#2328

Image AS17-P-2301 taken near Littrow F and Vitruvius A, is of course, no exception. The image itself has many isolated patches of darker terrain which are similar to the image below cropped from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University tif tile 5. In the center of the cropped image is a step “C” shaped platform with slightly higher elevation on one side, slightly lower on the other.

(Above image processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona Stae University AS17-P-2301 raw tif tile 5.)

On the platform, there appear to be structures resembling buildings. The largest structure visible (below, center) appears as if it might have an A-frame construction design. Other structures appear more traditionally square and a couple of structures appear to have tipped over. (Below, center left).

(Above image processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University AS17-P-2301 raw tif tile 5.)

Below, also from AS17-P-2301, an odd arrangement of structures and objects resembling statues casting a shadow on the lunar suface behind them.

(Above image processed from the NASA/JSC/Arizona State University AS17-P-2301 raw tif tile 5.)