Photos of the moon from a close distance. The most incredible photos of the moon, which are breathtaking. Why we stopped flying to the moon

On February 3, 1966, the Soviet automatic interplanetary station (AMS) Luna-9 was the first in the world to make a soft landing on the surface of an Earth satellite.

Seven communication sessions were conducted with the station total duration more than eight hours, during which the AMS transmitted a panoramic image of the lunar surface near the landing site in the Ocean of Storms.

Remembering this event, "RG" selected five of the most unusual photographs of the lunar surface taken in different years.

rolling boulders

In different places on the moon, traces were recorded, left, apparently, by rolling boulders. The first such photographs appeared in the early 1970s, and their collection is still growing.

These traces raise a lot of questions among researchers. Somewhere at the end there really is a huge boulder, but somewhere they cannot be found (what then left a mark?). The trajectory is also curious - boulders move not only up, but also down. Some, judging by the tracks, rolled into the crater, and then rolled out of it.

In this case, it is completely incomprehensible what force could make huge stones move along such strange trajectories? Scientists have put forward a version of volcanic impact, but there is no unequivocal confirmation of it yet. Moreover, while experts cannot even determine when these traces were formed and how long it took to form them.

It is believed that the first furrows on the moon were discovered about 200 years ago with the help of telescopes. And the first photographs of this unusual phenomenon were taken by the crew of Apollo 10 in 1969 - then the US manned spacecraft flew only 14 kilometers above the lunar surface.

Now there are three types of furrows: arcuate (form smooth arcs), winding, consisting of several curves, and rectilinear. The latter can reach a length of 250 kilometers, and at the moment are the least studied in terms of the cause of occurrence. So far, scientists have put forward a more or less plausible version regarding the appearance of twisting beards: most likely, these are traces of ancient lava flows.

"Alien Base"

On January 16, a video of a user with the nickname WowForReeel appeared on YouTube, who studied the Moon using the Google Moon service. On the reverse side of the satellite near the Sea of ​​Moscow, with a strong approach, you can see a strange "object" - seven points located at right angles. "To verify the authenticity of my find, just enter the Google Moon coordinates 22042"38 0.46 N and 142034"44 0.52 E," wrote WowForReeel.

As the user noted in his video, the object is completely atypical for this part of the moon - there is nothing like it in the district. Based on the shape and size of the triangle, WowForReeel suggested that it could be an alien base, or the wreckage of their spaceship.

The "sensation" was immediately picked up by the English newspaper Mirror, but a little later, images of this part of the moon made by NASA's LRO lunar probe, whose cameras have a higher resolution, appeared on the Web. No triangle is visible on them, and the mysterious "object" is a hill and a shadow cast by it.

Brown Moon

A sudden sensation was created by the Chinese lunar rover Yutu (Jade Hare), which landed on the moon in December last year. On the pictures of the lunar surface transmitted by him, it is clearly seen that the soil of the Earth's satellite is brownish in color, while most of the pictures of NASA spacecraft show the Moon as gray.

Conspiracy theorists cite a photo taken during the landing of the Apollo 17 mission as an argument. It shows an astronaut photographing himself against a gray lunar landscape, while brown ground is reflected in his spacesuit!

Opponents of the conspiracy theory give their arguments. Firstly, the lunar surface can have different shades depending on the time of day, the predominance of one or another substance in a particular area of ​​the soil, etc. Secondly, a lot depends on the recording equipment, the filters used, as well as the methods of post-processing. Some colors can really get out.

Someone believes that by doing so NASA hides the truth about the Moon from mere mortals, and someone, on the contrary, that as a result of processing, the images become more distinct. By the way, on the same NASA site you can find photos of the Moon in different shades, and not just cement gray.

traces of life

For many years, disputes have not subsided about whether the Americans were still on the moon, or whether their landing on the Earth's satellite is just a Hollywood trick. It seems that NASA was so fed up with these conversations that at the first opportunity it tried to send its new vehicles precisely to film the Apollo landing site.

In the summer of 2012, the American LRO probe was able to take pictures high resolution landing site for Apollo 12. The photo shows the things left by the astronauts, as well as the remains of the Surveyor 3 apparatus. He arrived on the Moon two years before the landing of the astronauts, and among the tasks was just the development of a safe lunar landing.

True, recently NASA again added fuel to the fire of the dispute between those who believe and do not believe in astronauts landing on the moon. The agency, concerned about the plans of other countries to study the moon, demanded that a 75-meter quarantine zone be observed not only around the remnants of American devices, but even the traces left by them.

Space has always interested man, and the Moon, as the closest object, has become the subject of close attention. On June 30, 1964, NASA's Ranger program took the first close-up images of the Moon and began collecting information to prepare for a manned flight to the Moon. Since that time, the number of photographs has grown steadily, and with them the number of lunar mysteries has grown. What professionals and amateurs did not find in the pictures of our neighbor ...


A strange object above the horizon of the Moon, taken by Lunokhod-2.


In different places of the Earth's satellite, traces were taken, left, presumably, by rolling boulders.


The first photos of such phenomena appeared in the early 1970s, and their collection is still growing.


The smaller object in this image, the one that made the longer path, somehow rose out of the crater before continuing down the slope.


This picture was taken using Google Moon: on the back of the satellite near the Sea of ​​Moscow, with a strong approximation, you can see a strange object - seven dots located at right angles.


This image was taken by the HIRES camera on the Clementine space station. The eroded structure has a distinctly rectangular anatomy.


And this is a crater, filmed on the far side of the moon, which looks more like a hole in the surface. This type of crater has been called "collapse crater", and ufologists suspect that it is nothing more than the remains of underground lunar structures.


The crater in this photo does have a rectangular shape, which is contrary to the laws of nature.


These are the craters Messier and Messier A. Also a strange shape, similar to the fact that they are connected by a tunnel.
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image taken by the US probe Lunar Orbiter on the far side of the Moon. In the Sea of ​​Crises, near the Picard crater rises an amazing "tower" resembling an artificial structure.


Skeptics believe that this "moon tower" is just a film processing defect, but judging by the enlarged fragment of the image, the object seems quite real.


The second Lunar Orbiter find is even more controversial: Image number LO3-84M shows a strange structure almost two kilometers high.


The shadow of the object and its unevenness in the reflected light are clearly distinguishable, as if it were made of glass.


An anomaly in the form of an unusual rectangle in lunar crater found by modern virtual archaeologists on one of the photos of the Apollo 10 mission, which are in the public domain.


Fans of riddles believe that the entrance to a certain dungeon got into the lens.


And this is a snapshot of a relief that resembles ruins on Earth.


October 30, 2007 former leader NASA Lunar Laboratory Photo Services Ken Johnston and writer Richard Hoagland held a press conference in Washington, D.C., reports of which immediately appeared on all world news channels.


They stated that at one time American astronauts discovered the ruins of ancient cities and artifacts on the Moon, indicating the existence of some highly developed civilization on it in the distant past.


And this is a pyramidal elevation on the dark side of the moon.


The Chinese lunar satellite Chang'e-2, launched on October 1, 2010, discovered such objects.


The pictures were published by Alex Collier, who is known for retelling messages coming from space from aliens.


Here are more pictures of the surface of the moon, which depict structures of an interesting shape.


Some construction.


Relief of an unusual shape.



The outlines of buildings can be clearly distinguished in the picture.


Another object that seems artificial.


A similar glow on the dark side of the moon has been seen repeatedly.


And this stone of a strange shape very much resembles a skull.


An unidentified object on the surface of the moon.


A sensational article appeared in the American newspaper The New York Times: "A human skeleton was found on the moon." The publication refers to Chinese astrophysicist Mao Kang, who presented this photo at a conference in Beijing.


NASA released this footage, taken by cameras on the Ebb and Flow twin satellites, one of which flew over the rectangular object.


Lunar "buildings" again.


Not so long ago, ufologists from the Secure Team 10 team discovered a "tank" in one of the NASA images.


And a popular American ufologist under the nickname Streetcap1 found an “alien base” in images of the far side of the moon taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter probe.


This image of the surface of the Moon, published by former NASA employee Ken Johnson, shows the Apollo mission module in the center, but on the left side there are several mysterious dots.


Most of the points are located in even parallel rows, which is extremely rare for natural formations.


New NASA research has shown that the moon has mysterious swirling patterns of light and dark spots. They are found in over a hundred various places over the entire surface.


On November 25, 2015, an amateur astronomer named Dennis Simmons captured the International Space Station in his telescope image, which should be at an altitude of about 400 km from the Earth's surface, but for some reason is right next to the Moon in the photo.


Another Australian, Tom Haredine, who filmed on November 21, 2015, also captured the station there.


It turns out that either the ISS flew to the moon, or astronomers took a photo of an unknown object that looks like an earth station.


A lot of noise on the Web was made by frames that clearly show that an “alien” is wandering on the surface of the moon.


On September 15, 2012, one of the amateur astronomers published a video on the Web in which you can see how a whole flock of small luminous objects breaks away from the surface of one of the craters.


UFOs over the lunar surface were also found on footage taken by the Apollo 10 mission.


And this huge elongated "alien ship" "buried" its nose into the lunar soil, apparently during an unsuccessful landing.


This object with a “tail” of light was discovered by ufologists on footage from the Apollo 11 mission.


A UFO resembles a projectile or a flying ship.


This group of lights separated from the surface of the Earth's satellite.


The photo of an unusual object above the lunar horizon was taken by the pilot from the Apollo 17 mission Harrison Schmidt.


"Straight wall" - this is the name of a perfectly flat formation almost 75 km long.

It seems like a tabloid invention, but in fact, the conspiracy theory was released into the world by Bill Kaysing, former employee Rocketdyne, which built engines for the Apollo lunar program. It looks like counter-propaganda made in KGB, but any doubts about the reality of American flights to the moon were repeatedly dismissed by cosmonauts and Soviet rocket scientists. The arguments of engineers are powerless here, we are talking about psychology. Despite the comprehensive documentation of the landing, including by specialists from the space department of the USSR competing with NASA - radar data, observations through telescopes, received signals from the board, recordings of the astronauts' conversations, a television picture - for almost 50 years, the Lunar conspiracy theory has not lost popularity.

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According to various estimates, from 6 to 20% of Americans believe that flights to the Moon were not made, and that the published photos and videos were filmed in pavilions on Earth. Conspiracy theorists outside the US are even more active. On October 1, 2015, the Russian crowdfunding platform Boomstarter began raising money for the creation of a microsatellite capable of going to the Moon in order to film in high resolution traces of NASA astronaut landings or to refute their existence. Although the authors of the project expected to collect 800,000 rubles in a month, after three days more than a million were received on their account.

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Paradoxically, it is the large body of documentary material left behind by the Apollo program that feeds the notion that it never happened. In particular, at least half of the dozens of arguments against landing on the moon are based on the analysis of photographs taken there. A recent Flickr post at 1,800 dpi will surely add new vigor to the discussion. Bird In Flight has selected some of them to illustrate the pros and cons of the conspiracy theory.

Photo quality

Statement. Photos from the moon are too high quality, as if they were taken in a studio, but they were taken by non-professionals in a hostile environment.

Explanation. The astronauts carried the best medium format camera of the time, a Hasselblad 500EL with Zeiss Planar f/2.8 80mm and Zeiss Sonnar f/5.6 250mm lenses, as well as the latest Hasselblad 500EL Data Camera with a specially designed for NASA Zeiss Biogon f/5.6 60mm lens. . Each camera was painstakingly calibrated, and the Apollo crews went through a crash course in photographing with the thick gloves of their suit and without the viewfinder, which was obstructed by the helmet.

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Film safety

Statement. The film must have melted from the high daytime temperatures on the Moon.

Explanation. Indeed, the Sun heats the surface of the Moon up to 120 °C, but the film used by the astronauts on a special heat-resistant base could only begin to melt at 260 °C. At the same time, the camera body protected it from direct sunlight, and the vacuum created excellent thermal insulation.

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Shadows

Statement. With a single source of light, the Sun, the shadows from the astronauts and equipment should fall in the same direction. In the photo, they fall differently, as if the scene is lit by several spotlights.

Explanation. To avoid high temperatures, astronauts always landed on the Moon when the Sun was low on its horizon, and the rays fell gently. Therefore, hills and craters greatly changed the direction and length of the shadows. They were also influenced by the laws of perspective, where shadows seem to tend to converge on one point on the horizon.

Stars

Statement. The photos do not show stars. At the time, it was difficult to predict what the starry sky would look like from the surface of the moon, and NASA decided to remove them altogether from the images.

Explanation. Firstly, for shooting with cameras of that time on the surface of the Moon flooded with bright sunlight, it was necessary to set the fastest shutter speed, which did not allow working out the specks of stars in an absolutely black sky. At a slow shutter speed, on the contrary, it was possible to capture the stars, but at the same time, objects really important for that shooting would go into the overexposure area: astronauts, landscape elements, the descent vehicle. Secondly, the stars are still visible - in part of the photos taken from the dimly lit cockpit during the flight.

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Flag

Statement. In the airless space of the moon, the flag cannot flutter as it can be seen in the photo.

Explanation. The flag was crumpled during the flight, and when it was installed, the first expedition failed to fully extend the horizontal bar of the L-shaped structure to which it was attached. The astronauts liked the random effect of "fluttering in the wind", and in the future they deliberately did not unfold the structure completely.

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Module Traces

Statement. It is impossible that the supports of the 17-ton Lunar Module and its rocket engines did not leave craters on the surface, and the footprints of the astronauts were clearly visible.

Explanation. Excluding the fuel and oxidizer spent in flight and taking into account the weak lunar gravity, the module weighed about 1,220 kilograms after landing. At the same time, the area of ​​\u200b\u200bits support was significantly larger than that of the soles of the astronauts, which reduced the pressure on the surface.

The rocket engine during the last phase of the lunar landing developed thrust several times less than the maximum, only compensating for the weight of the lander so that it would not fall. According to calculations, the pressure on the surface at that moment was less than 1/10 of the atmosphere, which is completely insufficient for the formation of a crater.

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footprints

Statement. The footprints of the astronauts are so clear, as if they were left on wet sand, and there is no water on the Moon.

Explanation. The astronauts moved by leaps and bounds, leaving deep dents in a mass of lunar dust that is never blown away by the wind. The clarity of the traces is also explained by the absence of an atmosphere - grains of sand untreated with water and air have sharp edges that link them to each other.

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Jump height

Statement. The force of gravity on the moon is 6 times less than the earth, respectively, and you can jump there 6 times higher. However, the recorded jumps are somehow too low.

Explanation. Proportionately, by a factor of 6, the grip force of the astronauts' legs with the surface decreased, and yet their mass and inertia, taking into account the weight of the spacesuit, became even greater than on Earth. In such conditions, the astronauts avoided high jumps, so as not to damage the life support systems in the spacesuit satchel during a fall.

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In September 2002, Buzz Aldrin, a member of the Apollo 11 crew and the second man on the moon, arrived at a hotel in Los Angeles for what he believed to be an interview for a Japanese educational television program. However, at the entrance he was met by the famous conspiracy theorist Bart Sibrel, who demanded in an ultimatum form to swear on the Bible that Aldrin really stepped on the lunar surface. After a brief skirmish in which the astronaut was called a thief, a coward and a liar who takes money for stories of unrealized feats, 72-year-old Aldrin loaded Sibrela with his fist in the jaw. Although the victim appealed to the police and to the court, his actions were considered provocative, and no charges were brought against Aldrin.

“Our return to the moon now will not be an achievement. It will be a hell of a waste of resources, and most likely, the Chinese will already meet us there. Sounds good: "Let's go back. This time to stay!’ But I don’t understand why you would suddenly want to stay on the moon.”
Buzz Aldrin.

In my articles regarding the study of images of the surface of the moon, I have repeatedly drawn the reader's attention to the fact that the quality of images provided by NASA to the public is extremely low. And this despite the fact that NASA's LRO satellites are in orbit around the moon.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO, Lunar Orbital Probe) is NASA's automatic interplanetary station, an artificial satellite of the Moon. The launch using the Atlas V launch vehicle took place on June 19, 2009 at 01:32 (Moscow time), which is almost an hour and a half later than the scheduled time. The delay was due to bad weather conditions. On June 23, 2009, the probe entered lunar orbit.

LRO, along with fellow Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), are the vanguard of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program to return to the Moon.

Images transmitted by these satellites are made available for free access.

According to NASA, the following equipment is installed on the satellite for imaging:

LROC (The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera) main optical camera for taking photographs of the Moon's surface with resolution up to half a meter, with the help of which they will look for suitable landing sites for manned expeditions. LROC consists of three cameras: a low resolution camera (WAC) and two high resolution cameras (NAC), the first of which is designed to receive general plans terrain, and the other two for high-resolution photographs. It is planned to take photographs of approximately 8% of the lunar surface, including:

1) all places associated with human activity: landing sites for manned Apollo spacecraft, American and Soviet automatic stations, as well as craters formed during the fall of artificial satellites of the Moon and other devices

2) 50 “high interest zones” selected by scientists

3) circumpolar regions, which are now considered the most promising for the organization of a habitable base.

You can evaluate the quality of images transmitted to the ground by visiting the site indicated above, but there is no question of any resolutions "up to half a meter". Black and white photographs are of disgusting quality, simply shameful for modern civilization.


The picture is posted on the site Moon Views

NASA comment: LRO photographed a site in the landing area of ​​the Apollo 14 spacecraft. In the picture with spatial resolution 0.8 meters distinctly noticeable chains of traces of astronauts and some I am a structure in the place where the ship's lunar module was left.

Looking at the picture, you are surprised at the imagination of NASA, which saw "distinct traces" in this disgusting quality picture, and you involuntarily wonder - does NASA have Chinese "soap dishes" installed on its satellites?

Well, let's leave for a while NASA's lunar satellites with Chinese consumer goods instead of cameras, but excuse me, but are the telescopes of scientists all over the world also made in China?

Where are the images of the lunar surface taken by professional, powerful, huge resolution and digital telescopes? Science constantly feeds us "ignorant" photographs of disgusting quality and it is completely unclear whether they have telescopes from the nearest supermarket, or whether their hands do not grow from there, or whether the reason lies elsewhere - the unwillingness to give mere mortals clear and high-quality pictures the surface of the moon.

Amateur astronomers capture the surface of the moon much better than both NASA satellites in orbit around the moon and all the professional observatories in the world combined!

Below I will give pictures taken by a simple man in the street from France. common man interested in space.

Moreover, Thierry Lego worked not somewhere in the equatorial desert, but in the suburbs of Paris, despite all the lights of the fifth largest city in Europe - he did great shots and not only the Moon, but also Mercury and Uranus! And he got incredibly detailed images of both. If you look closely, you can see the details of the surface of Mercury and the cloud belt of Uranus. The pictures were taken with the 356mm Celestron C14 Edge HD telescope and the Skynyx 2-2 camera.


Moretus crater


Uranus


Mercury

About the quality of NASA photos showing the Sun, you can write another similar article. I'll just give a photo taken by the same amateur, where the ISS is captured against the background of the Sun, you can appreciate the detail of the picture. A full gallery of what this amateur astronomer photographed can be viewed on his website.



Often in the comments one has to read the slogans of those who defend NASA and others like them, - " Be glad NASA is showing these pictures at all!"Ah, I'm not happy, and you know why? There's nothing to be happy about. You and I are being held as a herd that is denied the right to KNOW more than is allowed by the shepherd, excuse me for being frank, and anyone who thinks otherwise is simply overly naive.

It is now 2012, spy satellites in Earth orbit, can freely read what you write on a piece of paper or SMS that you write on your cell phone, but science is not able to photograph the moon or the Sun in the same quality?

It remains to be hoped that there will be more and more people like Thierry Lego, and the quality of equipment available to the average user is getting better and better. Maybe then we'll finally know the truth.

The truth about the world around us...


Enjoy the first photo of the surface of the moon in high resolution, extracted from space, the Earth and the lunar rover, with Soviet and color frames of the reverse side.

The nearest neighbor to the Earth is our only satellite, the Moon. It is not surprising that humanity has managed to complete successful missions and get excellent high resolution pictures of the moon. After all, if we want to explore space, then they must understand what is happening literally around the corner. In the photo of the Moon, you can see that this is a small object with a crater surface. Gravity is below earth, so pictures of the moon demonstrate how astronauts move in high jumps. You have the opportunity to look at the amazing geology and get to know this world better. Photo of the Moon high resolution will allow you to admire reverse side, explore craters and landing sites, and see the Earth from space.

High resolution photos of the moon

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon

Bean walks on the moon

Astronaut Alan Bean stopped by the instrument carrier during the Apollo 12 mission to the lunar surface. A black and white photograph of the moon was taken by Charles Conrad. His reflection can be seen on the suit.

Two ships on the moon

Earth, Moon, Hubble

During a mission in December 1999, the crew of the Discovery managed to get a photo of the bright Moon, our planet, and part of the Hubble Space Telescope. To the left is the earth's horizon. The moon appears bright because it has entered the full moon phase and is closest to the earth.

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Moon in a frame

This image was taken in 1998 from the rear windows of the Discovery. The Earth is visible on the left, and the Moon is in the center. The STS-95 mission flew over the Atlantic Ocean. Also on this flyby, Senator and Project Mercury member John Glenn returned to space.

moon walk

James Irwin works near the moon vehicle during the Apollo 15 mission in Hadley-Apennines. In the foreground is the shadow of the Sokol lunar module. The photograph of the Moon was taken by Commander David Scott. Apollo 15 launched on July 26, 1971 from the Kennedy Space Center. The pilot was Alfred Worden.

To the moon

View of the Moon from the ISS

On November 12, 2013, a photo of the earth satellite of the Moon from the ISS was taken. Typically, crew members during missions have time to consider hundreds of various kinds Moon. But our neighbor continues to attract attention. The photograph was taken from space at 00:00:00 GMT.

First look at Earth from the Moon

Ride on the moon

Apollo 16 landing

Apollo 12 landing

Passage of the Moon in front of the Sun

During the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017, an Earth satellite passed in front of the Sun. Photo of the Sun and Moon taken from Lake Ross in national park Northern Canada. A total solar eclipse spanned a narrow portion of the US from Oregon to South Carolina. A partial event could be observed from South America, Africa and Europe.

good night moon

Astronaut Scott Kelly posted this high-quality photo of the moon taken from the ISS on in social networks and signed: “Day 97. Good night Luna."

Shadow Surveyor-1 on the Moon

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