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by gcsievers
Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:47 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Southern Moonscape, lunar craters (APOD 23 Aug 2007)
Replies: 36
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Yes - I did notice that. Which makes my observaton even more specious.
by gcsievers
Sun Aug 26, 2007 2:52 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Southern Moonscape, lunar craters (APOD 23 Aug 2007)
Replies: 36
Views: 11228

Thank you for responding yet again. I have NO idea what I am seeing and, as I said, it may be just a function of the perspective view. Either that or, at one time the moon had an atmosphere of some kind, someone punched a hole in it and it all rushed out thru this hole blowing the dust around. :lol:
by gcsievers
Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:06 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Southern Moonscape, lunar craters (APOD 23 Aug 2007)
Replies: 36
Views: 11228

A figment of my imagination? That is possible. At my age there are several figments of my imagination lying around. However, you mentioned scarring. I don't know about scarring but a series of small meteorite strikes all coming from the same general direction might make sense. Like the "face&qu...
by gcsievers
Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:32 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Southern Moonscape, lunar craters (APOD 23 Aug 2007)
Replies: 36
Views: 11228

August 23 APOD

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070823.html This picture shows lines in a NNE direction (if N was up) that almost look like dust blown by a wind. We all know that is unlikely if not impossible but then, what is the cause of the lines? Are they an artifact of the foreshortened perspective? Look e...