Lunar Strip Mine in John Lear's Moon Photos??, page 2
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reply posted on 18-9-2006 @ 10:15 PM by justgeneric
Depending on the make up of the stone, wind patterns and other erosion factors...some parts look a bit like this (Arizona Desert)...

Desert rocks

However it does have that...look to it huh?

I remember seeing some pictures of abandoned strip mines somewhere...all overgrown and eroded in places...hmmm.

Will see if I can find the site I saw them on


reply posted on 18-9-2006 @ 10:21 PM by anxietydisorder
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord

The source is NASA.

And with the Wiki image, we now have two different images, from different angles, through different sources, showing the same "strip-mine-like" attributes.



This image is from NASA World Wind taken on the Clementine mission.
I screen captured it from their program simular to Google Earth, and the data set was probably produced between February and April of 1994 for the Naval Research Laboratory.

The step like structures are clearly visible.




This image is from the Lunar Orbiter II, taken 23 November 1966.
Looks like the same image Skeptic posted above.



Called by the media the “Picture of the Century,” it is looking in the same direction, to the north, but the telephoto lens has changed the whole atmosphere of thecrater.

Now the frame is filled with a forbidding landscape of plunging cliffs, sweeping escarpments, and tumbling landslides backed by desolate mountain ranges rolling away into the distance. Ringed by rugged 600 metre high cliffs, a jagged mountain ridge thrusts up from the crater floor to a height of 305 metres.

This view must have awed the Apollo astronauts, about to embark on their voyages to the Moon. In fact, this is the crater that was supposed to be the destination of Apollo 20, the last Apollo mission, as a spectacular finale of the Moon landing program. One suggestion was for the astronauts to fly a small spacecraft to the ledges of the surrounding cliffs. It’s a pity it was cancelled – it would have been an exciting mission.
www.honeysucklecreek.net...




This one's a longer shot from the same mission:






Now back to Earth...........

A diamond mine in Canada:


One more pit mine on Earth.



The similarities are striking.



reply posted on 18-9-2006 @ 10:25 PM by justgeneric
There's a crater in Canada that is currently mined as Skeptic Overlord pointed out...

Crater Mining

If there were a race technologically advanced enough to "be" there...chances are they would have recognized a good opportunity.

Opportunistic little green men


reply posted on 18-9-2006 @ 10:58 PM by spacedoubt
Titanium?

This is a false color image taken by Galileo spacecraft.



the Bluer the area, the more titanium present.

Copernicus is pretty much in the center of the image..
the region doesn't look very blue, but it's covered with an ejecta blanket.
You can sort of see the blue underneath.
A natural Titanium mine?

If I had to mine the moon for titanium, and I've often wanted to do that (j/k).
Maybe thats a good place?

[edit on 19-9-2006 by spacedoubt]

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