Just found a bridge on the moons surface

a reply to: Spacespider


It's not impressive and indicative of anything in particular. In the photos you see a longer, straighter "runway" on the right. Having no discernible features you can't call if a bridge and it's up to the eye of the beholder what he/she wants to believe. Not worth the post.

a reply to: neutronflux

China's data can be found here:

moon.bao.ac.cn...

You can download the full size TIFF images (1.2gb each), but you'd need to register.

I can tell you that the 'bridge' (which would easily be visible from Earth with even a small telescope) isn't in any of their images, or any Japanese or Indian ones.

It does feature in the original image (I have an original 'Lunar Orbiter Atlas of the Moon), but not in another photo taken by the same probe

www.lpi.usra.edu...

It's a fault in the image.

What does god meed with a spaceship??

(Or, soufflé girl, where did you get the eggs??)

At 1/6 the gravity, why would you ever need roads if your saucer from another mauster can levitate?? At that point (which we passed in the 1950s) means we don’t need roads or “bridges” at all!

Answer, we don’t. And if a drunken idiot like me can figure that out then some robotic AI decked out in night vision goggles/eyes can do the same.

But then again, they keep getting drunk and crashing their saucers while not wearing seatbelts, so who can say??



(Sarcasm disguised as humor, or a bad attempt…, I don’t mean to be mean, or anything)

a reply to: imdfreek

Interesting mostly from the psychological point of view, as they point to an apparent need (some) humans have to find strange things in common things.

Edited to add that the name was J. P. Skipper. and the site Mars Anomaly Research.

a reply to: OneBigMonkeyToo

Other possibility it is a lava channel called a rill

Molten lava from earliest time of moon carved out a channel leaving the remanent over the top of the channel

originally posted by: firerescue
a reply to: OneBigMonkeyToo

Other possibility it is a lava channel called a rill

It looks nothing like a rill (no signs of a brighter side facing the Sun and a darker side on the opposite side, too straight) and it looks too much like something on the photo itself.

The fact that it doesn't appear in any other photos points to something on the photo itself too.

a reply to: firerescue

As ArMaP says, it would look completely different, and is highly unlikely to be perfectly straight.

It's also worth bearing in mind that we're looking at a digitally remapped image from above on Google Moon. The actual image was taken with that area at much more of an angle.

The image concerned, Lunar Orbiter IV frame 184 H1 is here:

www.lpi.usra.edu...

Here's that area from the image obtained from the site above:

and from my original book:

Notice it's much broader and also crosses a darker shadowed region without showing any change in shading.

The Lunar Orbiters had two cameras, one covering a larger area, the other taking close-ups of that same area. Image H1 is one such close up.

The larger area photo isn't on that link, but it can be found here:

pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov...

which are digitally restored versions from the original tapes.

This is that same area from the larger scale image:

There is the suggestsion of a similar looking line, but it is a) shorter, and b) not in the right place.

Lunar Orbiter images were taken on film and processed on board, then scanned and transmitted back to Earth. My guess would be a defect on thenegative.

a reply to: Spacespider

Clearly it's a runway. Obviously that's where the Moon planes take off and land from.

How else would you expect Aliens to land on the Moon?

Thats a cigar shaped Craft

A bridge would have A road leading to it

Why drive when they fly

Still a nice find

a reply to: NightFlight
Roger that, well maybe asking it politely some mysterious NASA buff accidentally stumbles on a lost archive picture showing us the real deal here 😉

a reply to: 0bserver1

Well, that has pretty much been politely provided! The images I posted above are the actual ones and are the best they had at the time it was taken, but if you really want to delve then there are other sources.

There are, of course, the Apollo missions for which the Lunar Orbiters were launched. The Metric Mapping cameras for Apollo 15 and 17 saw the same areas:

wms.lroc.asu.edu...
wms.lroc.asu.edu...
wms.lroc.asu.edu...

Apollo 17 also took a very good view of it with a Hasselblad:

www.flickr.com...

You're welcome to look at those and see if you can spot a bridge.

The 'bridge' isn't on the LRO view of the same area, and then there's Japan's 3D data (the red square shows where it should be)

and China's view:

None of them show it, not even the Lunar Orbiter image taken at exactly the same time as the one mapped on Google Moon! Why? It just ain't there!