artifacts?

[stealthyaroura]

I don't have the software or expertise like some of the member when it comes to the moon pics.
Anyone see any odd objects? possible NON lunar technology. I see symmetrical shapes around
the edge of the crater and there looks to be some oddities inside the crater itself.
scale? anyone care to have a go? SGT ROCK?

Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University. This image shows a bench crater in the lunar mare. Bench craters are so called because they have a small bench lining the interior of the crater wall. This image was released June 5, 2013.

[ArMaP]

I don't have the software or expertise like some of the member when it comes to the moon pics.
Anyone see any odd objects? possible NON lunar technology. I see symmetrical shapes around
the edge of the crater and there looks to be some oddities inside the crater itself.
scale? anyone care to have a go? SGT ROCK?

After a first look, I don't see anything strange, but it's hard to be sure, as the rocks (?) on the crater are overexposed. I will see if I can get a better version of the photo, but I doubt it, as it's a recent photo.

As for scale, they say that's a 160 metres wide crater.

[stealthyaroura]

Thanks ArMaP right up your street this.
can you recommend any program I could download as a tool to zoom and rotate and overlay/outline bits? what do people use here on peggy? any examples? I have never had a go but would like use such a program.

[ArMaP]

Photoshop is the best all round program for working with images (it even opens the IMG format used by the Planetary Data System), but Gimp is also good and free (besides being open source).

I don't remember if the PDS images from LROC are also available in 16 bits TIFF files, if they are then, if I'm not mistaken, Gimp cannot be used, as it doesn't open 16 bits TIFF files.
(I may be wrong in what I said above, but it's too late for me to check it now)

If you have Linux you can also try to download the ISIS suite for working with IMG and CUB files.

[zorgon]

Sharp long pointy shadows

Like Lunar Orbiter

...not rounded hills like Apollo and Kaygua 


The Shadow Knows...

[stealthyaroura]

its 4:30 am i have to sleep but THAT is the item I was on about out of the crater zorgon
Thanks ArMaP I will take a look at those programmes tomorrow(today ) later.

I be back thanks all.

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

I downloaded the original tiff file, M162447033R.tif

Image Data
Time   (DOY:162) 2011-06-11T15:56:05
Orbit   9074
Center Longitude   339.490°
Center Latitude   30.252°
Resolution   0.666666 m/pixel
Mode   Native
Download Supporting File   M162447033R.tif
Caption:
NAC frame in central Mare Imbrium near McDonald crater. Image width is ~1.9 km.

[NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Here is the description:

Bench craters are so called because they have a small bench lining the interior of the crater wall. In fact, this bench is interpreted to be the contact between the bottom of the regolith (soil) and the basaltic bedrock below. The regolith is a layer of brecciated material that develops as a result of micrometeorite bombardment, it consists mostly of a fine powder containing numerous angular fragments. The regolith and the coherent basalt both have different strengths, with the regolith being easier to displace than the underlying basalt during an impact event. The result of a moderate impact (in this case one that produced a 160 m diameter crater) into this area then gave us a spectacular view of the local stratigraphy.


I didn't see anything that jumps out at you. There were a couple of areas that looked interesting that I hi-lighted.



Cropped:


Different angles.

[A51Watcher]

Great presentation Sarge.

Well done!

[stealthyaroura]

Thanks for that SGT that was the stuff in question. I pulled the picture off whilst looking at
china's chang'e-2 site that MR john lear has on lock down.
Hmmm wonder what he's pawing over
I may be offline for a short while due to unforeseen circumstance so i'm not being ignorant if I don't reply.
In the words of arnie "i'll be back"

[deuem]

From your original photo



Very hard to do gray scale photos

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

Can you assign colors in your process? Maybe a color for each 'layer'?..just guessing...

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

Great presentation Sarge.

Well done!

Thanks but you're being too kind. Did this in about 15 min.s'..Just didn't have the time to really go after it, but wanted to put something up. You're stuff is amazing btw. I did check out the link on the Grand Voyage thread...too much reading.. ..I'll be awhile ...Again beautiful  work!

[deuem]

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[ArMaP]

Neither the TIFF or the IMG are 16 bit files.

This is from the IMG file, with the levels adjusted (with no loss of shades of grey) to make that area more visible, as the image posted on the LROC site had, as usual, some kind of "auto levels" applied to the whole image, and that makes the image worse in the darker and brighter areas.



Long shadows are normal when the Sun is just 12º above the horizon.