New Moon Anomaly

[A51Watcher]

I checked with Zorgon first, and he says this is new so here we go -


I was browsing Moon photos a bit ago, (I guess that's what us old guys do after they've already seen the craft at Area 51      )

here -


http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/apollo/browse



and chose the •AS16 : 787 images,


and then started browsing the images.


http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/apollo/browse?camera=P&mission=16


While looking over AS16-P-4095 -


http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/apollo/view?image_name=AS16-P-4095


...on the left hand side I noticed a white 1/2 circle (ellipse actually) along the top.

Below that are 2 dark areas, one slightly to the left and one to the right.


As I began to zoom in, I noticed something odd in the dark area to the right -







You can view the original high resolution version online and also zoom even further here -


http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/apollo/view?image_name=AS16-P-4095





So then...


Glitch?

Lightning on the Moon?

Corona discharge?

Welding in space?





Swamp gas, thats it! 



P.S. - Can somebody do a screen cap of the high res version online, zoomed in on that anomaly?

[zorgon]

[A51Watcher]

Now that's what I call service! 

[zorgon]

Definitely looks like electrical discharge



Negative image

[biggles]

And there are other ones behind that big one, can you see them as well.

[exuberant1]

Wowsers!

If that ain't a film error, then it is an LTP. Wicked cool find regardless.

*The electric universe fellas would really dig this one.

[A51Watcher]

And there are other ones behind that big one, can you see them as well.

Yes I see them, with the image rotated it looks sort of like a lightning storm coming from the clouds (which are also above and covering the surface).

[rdunk]

Probably about the same as the others! Really looks pretty strange!

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

Very nice find. Very nice.
The only thing that bothers me, if its such a bright white almost like a lightning strike, how come there isn't any reflection on the surrounding strata? I would think that a strike or discharge that large would have a tremendous amount of flash in the surrounding area. To me it would light up the whole area...Just wondering...excellent photo though...first time I've seen that in an old Apollo photo...
kuddos for the find.

Rock

[Pimander]

I'm stumped.  Just posting to say that I don't think that is lightening.

[1Worldwatcher]

I think it looks like a Plasma Emission, usually caused by high energy situations. Tectonic plate shifts cause this with in our earths crust, as well as it being produced by just right atmospheric conditions, not a lot of Pictures of them though that can compare, but may have something to do with atmospheric conditions and differences from earth to the moons surfaces. Very cool find.

1Worldwatcher

[deuem]

My first guess is light leakage on the processor.
Why is there such a straight line cut under it and also in the area many straight lines, shadows?
If it were lightning on the moon it should only be white, no color at all.
On Earth the electricl fields excite the air gas and make more colors.
Deuem

[Pimander]

My first guess is light leakage on the processor.
Why is there such a straight line cut under it and also in the area many straight lines, shadows?

Maybe.....

If it were lightning on the moon it should only be white, no color at all.
On Earth the electricl fields excite the air gas and make more colors.
Deuem

What lightening would look like and whether is might exist on the moon would depend entirely on whether there is any atmosphere. 

No atmosphere?  Where would the lightening come from?  How would an electric discharge be visible if there was no atmosphere anyway?

If there is an atmosphere then it is possible but I still don't think that an electrical storm looks like that from an orbiter.

[Littleenki]

Lots of ggod theories here, and so many image experts, especially the Dueum!

My personal opinion after sleeping on it and checking some other anomalous pictures from Earth, where electrical discharges are concerned..is that it is an electrical anomaly, consisting of plasma outflow from some unknown source.



My heart tells me that unknown source is a fracking operation on the Moon, and the resulting anomaly is what it looks like when fracking underneath the surface occurs in a vacuum.


Boy Mining can be bright sometimes!

Speaking of flashes in a vacuum...



Same as a reaction in a neon tube which is vacuumed out and filled with gas...it lights up in so many odd ways when the voltages are off a bit.

Dueum, I think the flare from side to side is a reaction of lens flare, but the actual event is still happening down there, in the core of the anomaly.

Are they using particle beams or some sort of energy beam device to perform fracking mining techniques?

Cheers!
Le

[Pimander]

Neither liquid neon or plasma are present in a "vacuum".   Plasma is basically an ionised gas.