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Comments (17)
Does anyone know why the ma... (Below threshold)1. Posted by -S- | July 20, 2005 11:36 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Does anyone know why the many impact marks on the moon's surface are bevelled outward? You'd anticipate a bevelling inward from an impact...so many "bumps out" look like volcanic activity on the lunar surface, not impact craters (certainly not craters at all).
Yeah, I enjoyed that googlemap twist, too.
1. Posted by -S- | July 20, 2005 11:36 AM |
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2. Posted by joe | July 20, 2005 11:39 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Craters can have central mountains when the displaced material splashes back.
2. Posted by joe | July 20, 2005 11:39 AM |
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Posted on July 20, 2005 11:39
3. Posted by Steve L. | July 20, 2005 11:55 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I was amazed at the detail you could see at full zoom.
Google has outdone themselves this time.
3. Posted by Steve L. | July 20, 2005 11:55 AM |
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Posted on July 20, 2005 11:55
4. Posted by fatman | July 20, 2005 12:13 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Aaaahhhh...the power of cheese."
4. Posted by fatman | July 20, 2005 12:13 PM |
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Posted on July 20, 2005 12:13
5. Posted by Jay Tea | July 20, 2005 12:36 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Paul, I'm sure if you started taking up a collection to send you to the moon, you'd have countless commenters here and other bloggers who'd gladly donate.
As long as it was a one-way ticket.
J.
5. Posted by Jay Tea | July 20, 2005 12:36 PM |
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6. Posted by Jewels | July 20, 2005 12:43 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It's CHEESE Grommit! CHEEEEEEEEEEESE!!
6. Posted by Jewels | July 20, 2005 12:43 PM |
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Posted on July 20, 2005 12:43
7. Posted by FloridaOyster | July 20, 2005 1:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It's true!
7. Posted by FloridaOyster | July 20, 2005 1:29 PM |
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Posted on July 20, 2005 13:29
8. Posted by Laurence Simon | July 20, 2005 1:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Where's the Spongmonkeys?
8. Posted by Laurence Simon | July 20, 2005 1:50 PM |
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9. Posted by Danny Carlton | July 20, 2005 2:00 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Had a good laugh when I zoomed in all the way. Also, did anyone else have trouble finding the Wal-Mart? (
9. Posted by Danny Carlton | July 20, 2005 2:00 PM |
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10. Posted by scrub oak | July 20, 2005 2:13 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The reason for the "bevelled outward" appearance of the craters is pure visual illusion. The craters do indeed protrude into the surface of the Moon. The illusion is created because of the positioning of the camera relative to the surface of the Moon. The crystaline structure of moon dust causes the Moon's surface to act as a large reflector, becoming an indirect source of light. Though the dominate light source is the sun (located behind the camera) the reflected light is strong enough to create "reverse" shadows that tricks our visual processing into thinking the craters poke out of the moon. This effect disappears as the camera moves further away from the Moon as the density of the reflected light diminishes in relationship to the Sun's light, or as the camera moves closer to the moon to where you can perceive depth. Don't feel bad, the strange lighting effects of the Moon's surface causes many of the intellectual pitfalls of the Moon Hoax community.
10. Posted by scrub oak | July 20, 2005 2:13 PM |
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11. Posted by John Burgess | July 20, 2005 2:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What Scrub Oak said. This phenomenon is noted even in WWI and WWII aerial photography, where shell craters look like they're eruptions (they sort of are, but...)
If you turn the photo upside down, the craters tend to pop into what your brain's expecting to see.
11. Posted by John Burgess | July 20, 2005 2:27 PM |
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Posted on July 20, 2005 14:27
12. Posted by Paul | July 20, 2005 2:34 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Dammit Burgess, I just knocked my monitor on the floor.
thanks a lot!
But on the way down, the craters did look right.
12. Posted by Paul | July 20, 2005 2:34 PM |
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13. Posted by SilverBubble | July 20, 2005 3:03 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ah, so now the truth comes out! The government has been hiding the cheesy facts about the moon for decades! Thank you, Google, for being bold enough to reveal the truth!
13. Posted by SilverBubble | July 20, 2005 3:03 PM |
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14. Posted by Laura | July 20, 2005 4:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I dunno, my mother always told me it was made out of GREEN cheese, not yellow cheese, and that there is a fence around it.
14. Posted by Laura | July 20, 2005 4:29 PM |
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15. Posted by John | July 20, 2005 8:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"30 years ago man travelled to the moon and discovered it was not made of cheese. We haven't been back since."
"Behold the power of cheese."
15. Posted by John | July 20, 2005 8:23 PM |
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16. Posted by Tarheel | July 20, 2005 10:47 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Geeze. Can't those idiots at Goo-Goo-Google get anything right.
EVERYone knows the moon is made of GREEN cheese.
16. Posted by Tarheel | July 20, 2005 10:47 PM |
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17. Posted by -S- | July 21, 2005 2:03 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Interesting...I considered the conditions (all) mentioned here when I first looked over those google images, Moon's surface, and still found myself not convinced of the impact characteristics, if that's what they are (and so everyone says, not that I disbelieve the going opinions, visual interpretations).
I do notice that some of the marks are obvious craters (depressions on the surface), with, even, 'splash' impressions outward from a concentrated point...so, all that's from intense layers of dust, so to speak?
I also notice that there is basically one image that google has repeated when you move the image in any direction; probably due to our limitations of images available (d'oh), but it's misleading visually on a "map" source, to our detriment.
Back to the impact demarcations on the surface...for an impact to make a circular "fall back upward" impression and quite so many of them, the impacting body would have to make it's hit directly on...which seems strange when considering the odds of so many objects impacting with such direct hits (no angles to their impacts with the surface). In other words, I realize that when an impact happens if/when there's intense surface dust or loose debris (as with the Moon's surface), that a certain amount of settling back upward in the center point of that debris will occur but it seems unusual to my view that there are quite so many of those type of direct hit impacts, with only a few angled impact craters showing...just saying, it's curious.
17. Posted by -S- | July 21, 2005 2:03 AM |
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Posted on July 21, 2005 02:03