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October 5th, 2007 - 13:27
Hmmm… I figured there would be a secret military complex somewhere. Must be an old picture.
October 6th, 2007 - 03:32
Dark,but still beautiful,uh?
October 7th, 2007 - 13:33
Is this a computer generated composite? What are all those vertical lines?
October 7th, 2007 - 21:50
Is it just me, or is it smoother? If so, why would that be?
October 8th, 2007 - 09:36
Not sure about the vertical lines. They appeared when I decreased the size of the picture.
The far side is significantly smoother, because there was less ancient volcanic activity there. The really amazing part is *how much* smoother it is!
October 8th, 2007 - 14:04
“Not sure about the vertical lines. They appeared when I decreased the size of the picture.”
When a satellite circles the Moon in a polar orbit at low altitude, it takes pictures of long, vertical strips; this image could be a composite of those strips.
October 9th, 2007 - 20:00
Things always look different…when you peer at them from another point of view. ;)
Thank you for expanding some horizons just a bit, Michael.
While we can now observe the dark side of the orb which has always observed our own darkness, when shall we come to know, in kind, the dark side of the orbs through which we now peer?
October 11th, 2007 - 07:33
This surprised me because I’m familiar with pictures like these:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap981008.html
October 11th, 2007 - 12:36
Interesting… thanks for posting this.
This is what the rest of the universe sees, we should perhaps call it the outer face of the moon.
From what I remember of the close up pictures from NASA, the lunar outer face (farside) is more heavily cratererd, but there are many smaller craters, hence it looks smoother, or at least less variegated.
cheers,
Robert.