You know how you see these puzzles in magazines where they show you two pictures, and ask you to find the 10 places in the modified picture which are different? I usually can find most of them.
Re: Apollo 16, film and still photos. Should there be some relationship?
Look at the position of the flag... and which way the flag points.
http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/AS16/images/Apollo16_lander.jpg
In the above photo, the flag points directly away from the lander. From where the astronaut is taking the picture, you are looking face on to the flag.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYPGopJ6ciI&feature=autoplay&list=PL370788C7C33DC19C&playnext=2
And this Apollo 16 EVA film above, confirms the position of the flag, at about 0:26 into the film. The flag is pointing directly away from the lander. Interesting that the cameraman zooms in on the flag. Again, you look direct on at the face of the flag.
One of the first things the astronauts would do, is place the American flag pole into the soil. This film below shows it already placed, and astronaut John Young walking out to salute the flag. He stops, and jumps twice. His feet kick up soil. He is leaving footprints. Astronaut Charles Duke is heard asking John to give him the salute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nol6DILek3o
This is a longer version... it shows how astronaut Duke walked out to be beyond the flag to take the first photo. He would have left footprints.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4-2O_XVuO4&feature=related
Ok, let's correlate this to the official still shot of a jump and salute, taken by astronaut Duke.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo16/hires/as16-113-18339.jpg
Not a lot of footprints in the still picture above, so I'm thinking it's not too long after the flag was planted, the first day moon walking. I question why there is no soil disturbance or footprints close to the flag pole. The other film I referenced clearly shows astronaut Young kicking up soil.
How many footprints do you see in this still shot? If astronaut Young walked out there, stopped, jumped twice in the air, what sort of footprints would he have left where he was standing, even on the first jump? You can see footprints behind him, I don't know how far back they are.
This photo clearly shows the footprints of both astronauts going out and coming back.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo16/hires/as16-113-18342.jpg
Please note, there is a rock in both the film and still picture, near the flag pole. Use it as a reference.
And now, look closely at the flag in pic 18339. Astronaut Duke is taking the picture. The flag is between him and the lander. According to two of the films, the flag was pointing away from the lander. In this still shot, he should have been looking at the end of the flag, not the side of the flag.
I can't quite explain this.
Did this flag rotated when it was convenient for the camera?
Also look at astronaut's space suit when he's jumping in pic 18339... the billowing part under the right arm he is saluting with. Then look at the film where he jumps. No billowing I can see.
Are the footprints missing in astronaut Young's jumping picture? Or was the picture created from composite layers?
Quote from: KathyT on September 13, 2012, 02:43:58 AM
Are the footprints missing in astronaut Young's jumping picture? Or was the picture created from composite layers?
I don't think the footprints are missing, I think that we can see the disturbed soil to the left.
Maybe a look at the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html) will help, as they have the timeline of the mission, including the time they took which photos.
Quote from: ArMaP on September 13, 2012, 11:49:33 PM
I don't think the footprints are missing,
I have some pictures of the Lunar Rover... with missing tire tracks :P
Perhaps next time Peter Jackson will be the Producer.
At least it may be more Convincing... :D
Quote from: The Matrix Traveller on September 14, 2012, 01:18:54 AM
At least it may be more Convincing... :D
That's the problem with some people, instead of thinking for themselves they want to be convinced. :)