re: #154 Call me Infidel

I get slightly irritated with the tin foil hat merchants who claim it was all faked. However, can someone explain to me why the shadow of the LM in all the pictures goes in the opposite direction to all the other crater shadows? Am I missing something here?

I think it’s an optical illusion. the shadows you’re seeing in the photo that are created by “hills” aren’t what you think they are. I think they are internal shadows created in craters. see how there is a bright reflection in the right side of the crater? that reflection from the inner slope of the crater. I’m a painter (an amateur), and I had a hard time processing that picture till I realized those are probable craters. If they were hills, and the light was coming from the right, then the shadows would be oblique in shape, stretching off to the left. If they are craters and the light is coming from the left, then they would be crisp sharp circles on the left, with light on the inner lip on the right… as they appear in the pic.

hope i explained that well enough.