TSIOLKOVSKY'S SECRET

Apollo 15 Command Module Photo

AS15-94-12741HR

Take a look at the photos below first if you prefer but the text analyzes and explains what I think is in them.

All off-site links as well as the images open in a new window so you can do comparisons where applicable.

This photo and videos are from relatively high-res Apollo 15 photos from 119km above the Moon's surface. While waiting for the

LM to return, the Command Service Module Pilot Al Worden, was doing experiments and taking more photos.

(70mm Hasselblad, Mapping Metric and Panoramic)

He also used hand-held 35mm SLR cameras from inside the CSM.

It looks like there are two structures similar to operations where I've worked at one time.

Other areas in the image could be related.

There are three versions of this photo.

A low, medium and high res.

Why I Think These Are Structures In AS15-94-12741HR

They seem to have straight-line 3D symmetrical shape in a configuration I'm familiar with.

Shadows and shading are consistent with the images light direction. The outer edges of these "structures" conform

to the surface terrain around them. The left structure's north end looks like there's industrial pipelines going into the ground.

The resemblance of industries design submitted to NASA is very close. (comparison below)

Also an ongoing analysis of the photo is in progress also below.

I was employed in the early 70's at an underground mining operation in NT, Australia that had a similar type

of surface-to-subterranean layout. We used underground to surface conveying systems, protected within the pipelines.

Other shafts and tubes contained access and personnel corridors, equipment transport and side-connected tubes for

 workshops, engineering offices and break-rooms. Self contained, climate controlled and

some large enough to drive through.

Much like these underground and in-mountain inserts and connectors, being constructed at

Kirtland AFB for the Manzano Weapons Storage Facility located there.

(Note they're big enough to drive into and these are small ones)

The longer one shows the blast doors installed and the left end is open.

After verifying all the components fit properly, it's disconnected in smaller sections for transport.

Then depending on the underground configuration, "T" and /or "Y" connectors

are attached to branch off into other tubes.

And for everybody's information, these are also used for access and expansion

of existing underground bases that I guarantee you, do exist.

(I have place marks at these in Google Earth titled: Large Tube & Another Larger Tube)

370ft

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830ft

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See the huge crane under the camo netting?

Tube ready to be inserted at newly constructed  complex outside the main Manzano Facility.

Note the open blast door at the larger complex where I have another place mark in GE.

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Back to the photo...

My Theory On What They May Be

Underground Mining and Processing Sites. (West location)

Along with habitat and laboratory modules. (East location)

And possibly support sites in the near areas.

Before you call the nearest institution on me, consider this...

The caption in the version from the Apollo site reads:

"Lunar Orbit View: Lobate Landslip Outside Northeastern Rim Of Tsiolkovsky"

The landslide debris is the "chunky" area at bottom left in the photo.

What better mining conditions when you have a massive section of wall

several miles wide and hundreds of feet high already collapsed?

On one of the largest ejecta blankets on the planet....(more on that below)

And Tsiolkovsky is considered one of the more recent impact craters, in geological time.

The west site is just above the bulk of the rubble. The east site looks to be 3 to 5 miles to the east in this

images orientation. Because of the Command Orbiter's flight path, east is actually NNW in the Hi-Res photo.

The scaled image width of the photo is approximately 15 miles.

So what's being mined?

Any number of minerals and elements. Titanium, Helium3, Regolith, Gold,

Beryllium Oxide (for nuclear reactors) and possibly elements or minerals that don't exist on Earth.

And oxygen!

Regolith is the predominant ore that contains oxygen.

It's also the predominant ore on the Moon.

And did you know it's considered more valuable than diamonds or any precious metals?

At least here on Earth.

And Helium3 for fuel, Beryllium Oxide for reactors and Ilmenite also contains oxygen.

Scientists and astronomers have already confirmed that craters are disappearing from the surface.

Past large impacts splattered sub-surface material and what's left of the

meteor, asteroid or comet in what's called ejecta all around the newly formed crater.

Astronauts brought back crater ejecta full of oxygen. It makes sense that this can be mined

and stored in underground silos or containment vessels for later use.

"In 1980, another puzzle piece fell into place. A friend had shown me a special congressional subcommittee report on moon rocks brought back by the astronauts and a feasibility study on colonizing the moon. The document was dated 1972 or `73 and concluded that moon colonization using giant plastic air bubbles was unrealistic and that we would need to transport air from the earth. The congressional report concluded that there was plenty of oxygen on the moon trapped in the rocks. The recommended solution: pulverize the rocks on a large scale with major excavations. The liberated oxygen would be stored in underground caverns and tunnel systems and the debris from these pulverized rocks dumped into the existing craters. Naturally, the craters would eventually disappear, an observation made by astronomers long before the first moon landings and, ironically, one that had initially prompted Leonard and other scientists of the 1950s to analyze early moon photos".

More information if you can find it:

"Somebody Else Is on the Moon"

written by a former NASA scientist, George H. Leonard.

Leonard had been working in the photo intelligence division of NASA.

My note: Why would NASA have the need for a photo intelligence division?

I can think of only one reason....they have photos they don't want us to see.

I have seen this book (paperback version) and I don't see anything in the grainy

photos that he sees but the info in it is interesting. And the paperback doesn't reproduce

the images well at all.

OK...enough of my, "You must be nuts" theory.

However, not one person in the scientific community or NASA circles has

explained to me in any uncertain terms as to what these shapes are!

So I'm allowed.

One more point: Now the question is...Who is doing the mining?

Well,...if astronomers have been watching craters disappear long before we

sent our first Moon landing....?

If....1969 was our first landing.

And then there's these

Operations in progress today

Atlas Copco Rocket Boomer

M3D Face Driller

The following is the text for these two photos:

#1: "Gloria (shaft name) combined a vertical shaft for personnel and materials hoisting with a long incline shaft for vehicle

access and conveyor hoisting of the ore to a surface crushing, screening and washing plant".

#2: "The new expansion follows this design, having a 2,200m-long incline shaft and the 500m-deep No.3 personnel shaft.

There is also a new ventilation shaft, and a workshop located on the 400 level".

Link to above and below photos: http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/assmang/

Typical Sub-Layout

Complex Layout

Another type of opening.....

.....and it's surface layout

Getting back to the photo again...

The reflectivity of the shapes are consistent with other areas in the image and not overly over-exposed.

It can be determined the shapes are in the photo and not on the glass or negative by analyzing

the focal point. If on the glass or negative, after being re-photographed and later scanned, the shapes would be over exposed

into a "blooming" effect, giving the edges and the bulk of the shapes a bright Gaussian type blur. Much brighter than the images

brightest feature. The focal point being the surface terrain, shows these objects consistency of pixilation with the area around them when enlarged.

Debris on the glass or negative would pixilate at different levels.

And if debris, it would be closer to the scanning light than the subject being scanned, making them blurrier and brighter.

And here's something everyone should know. Like most new technologies, scanners were available

to the military long before they became available to the public. Although most were

re-photographed in smaller sections from the large mosaics into 16x20 prints.

The AS15 photo is not from a mosaic, it was taken with the 70mm Hasselblad.

You'll see what looks like hair or fibers in the scanned Hi Res photo. On closer inspection, they are actually rilles and channels created

by smaller impacts in the area. I first thought the shapes were common errors created from debris on the scanner glass or an anomaly

in the negative until I enlarged it and took a closer look at the two shapes that are visible without enlargement.

Some of the smaller specks, smudges and dark lines scattered around this image, are probably

from the scanner glass, on the camera window or negative itself.

Why I Think The Shapes Are Not Scanning Or Other Errors

On the LPI site there are dozens of photos and mosaics that have developing and scanning errors.

Some are caused by developing solutions.

Some are oily fingerprints transferred to the negatives.

Others have sticky-tape residue on them.

I'm sure cosmic radiation had a hand in creating film anomalies.

Some look like an airman spilled beer on them. (Karl Wolfe)?

(A joke, I once saw an interview with him showing what

looked like a beer can on a desk in the background)

Others show tape or clips that were used to hold the

print strips in place when creating mosaics.

Some are scan lines from radio transmissions

of the images from the space craft to Earth.

And numerous other causes.

But most of them are dried condensation on the negatives and prints from poor

storage practices after the mosaics and large photos were created.

When re-photographed and scanned in visible light scanners, these errors get

overexposed and create the blurry patterns.

But it's hard to tell which came first, like the chicken or the egg,

photos or negatives that were scanned then re-photographed...

or re-photographed prints that were scanned and then digitally re-photographed.

It really doesn't matter, the fact that they have these errors is the point.

And I've seen some web sites that claim these patterns are bases. They are not.

It's too bad some people manipulate photos to "enhance" the area.

And when it doesn't look quite real enough, all boundaries are crossed

in the name of sensationalism and authenticity. And no matter

how many sets of letters are behind someone's name, detail can't be created

by making it bigger than it was meant to be viewed.

If the original photo doesn't show any detail at just 100%, there isn't any!

The more you enlarge any photo,

the less detail you have and more pixilation at the same time, resulting

in shapes seemingly taking on transmutations but usually with some help. The same goes for

hi-res scans of lo-res photo negatives.

Even in this hi-res scanned photo I found. In fact, I've removed all the enlargements

I've made on other pages because they really don't bring out any detail, just larger pixels.

(with the exception of the Wisps and the circular object which are only 2x enlargement)

But this AS15 photo does show detail at just 100%

so enlarging it doesn't alter its shape or form.

And everyone should know, I'm not claiming anything in these pages, and haven't.

Just sharing my observations, theories and experiences as well as knowledge on photography and optics.

There is only two ways to confirm what's real or not...

The authority that created it comes forward with all the data or

we go there ourselves.........I'll volunteer.

In another section below, I've include a few to show you what these common and uncommon errors look like.

You'll see that the errors extend into space, well away from the surface and some, off the edge of the negative itself.

(These web sites don't show you that part)

You'll agree they all are completely different from the two shapes in this photo.

I have looked at almost every photo (thousands) on these two sites over the years

and there isn't one other photo with the same shapes as in AS15-94-12741HR.

If anyone has, I would like to know the photo # please.

One more note: I was so intrigued with this photo I emailed the authority

 that scans the negatives in a very high resolution .tif format for the public. (57Mb).

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/rpif.shtml

When it's ready, assuming they have the requested negative, they send you an email with a web site to download it from.

(In my case it took only one day before I was notified)

I was really excited while I waited for it to download. Then reality. It looks like a blown up copy of the lo-res version.

Nothing in it. Not even the smaller impact signs. And it was so dark that when I lightened it up,

it barely looks like the same photo.

So I won't post it here, it's not worth taking up my space.

Just blow up the lo-res version to 57Mbs and you'll have the same thing.

Or you can request it yourself from the above link.

(Here's a tip: They want to know what you're going to do with the images....I'm sure for copyright concerns.

"Research on... or for...." is the correct answer...you fill in the rest)

Knowing optics and techniques of developing, scanning and photo analysis, the scanned negative

  image made for me looks to be altered. Or at the very least, scanned at lo-res then enlarged.

Lo-Res version from LPI site

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From apolloarchive.com

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From apolloarchive.com

AS15-94-12741HR (1.08Mb JPG)

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The west site's north end not only looks like it has pipelines

going into the ground, it has a "cut-out" above it's center.

At our processing site we also had a 50ft deep,

100ft wide trench, 200ft long where waste material was

dumped then loaders filled trucks to haul away and bury.

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And what about what looks like a large cylinder in

the lower area at this east site.....a TBM?

Notice the top end of it is a little wider than the rest of it.

Exactly like the three TBM's below.

And to me it looks like there's a jointed boom attached to it.

I'm not suggesting the material is being trucked-out.

But if this kind of technology was in place back then,

there would be technology for a kind of lunar transporter too.

Whether it be on wheels or having flight capabilities or possibly both.

Or how about a deeper trench, reinforced on the inside to prevent collapse?

That "slot", is darker than the surrounding area.

But if the waste material is being relocated somehow,

we should all be checking old and new photos of the surrounding areas of

Tsiolkovsky for smaller insignificant craters, to see if any have filled up.

The two outside enlargements have been run through a high pass photo filter to clear them up a bit.

The photos next to them have been pixilated to show consistency of pixilation.

The two inner ones I show a larger area around the shapes at a bright/contrast increase in the surrounding area only.

I did this to show the pixilation of the area isn't different than those of the shapes and can't simply be an anomaly in the photo.

This is the first time I did this for the surrounding area and I'm noticing other areas just in these two that need to be examined more.

I hope I'm not pixilating everyone to death with these but I want to be thorough in making sure these shapes are not some kind of artifact

no one has come across yet. And the only way to do this is scrutinize the photo with all means available.

That is why I continue to do analysis as the processes and technology in analytical tools improve.

I'm hoping to acquire a program called ProView, an upgraded

version of MShell which was used in analyzing the Clementine images.

Update: ProView, MShell, Wipe and Pipe have been merged with a new tool

called REACT (Rapid Environmental Assessment Composition Tools) Same company as ProView on the same page.

I talked to one of the developers of the tool, who is also the narrator in the Flash demo below,

and he told me this program is currently being used for image analysis in most of the space programs today,

most notably, MRO,  Earth imaging from military and civilian satellites and the upcoming new lunar and Mercury missions.

The new program also uses spectrometry processing and geographical information systems (IP/GIS) that provides

network-centric manipulation of static and dynamic geo-spatial/temporal data, for identifying elements and minerals.

It's capable of rendering the images and geography of the landscapes in 3D, as well as determining elevations and

applying all this data into several types of interfaces.

Price for the program: $6,400.00...

...and one year of updates. Well, that makes it worth it..eh?!

Here is a Flash demo of REACT.

Here's a sample of the MShell program:

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Here's another section of what looks like the pipelines.

I increased the white point 50% in the lighter areas only and it reveals more confirmation in the surrounding area.

At the top end of the left pipeline, it looks like there's structural support around one of the holes.

The second close up is enhanced in the upper area only.

Small JPG's

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Another area SE of the west site.

I haven't compiled enough detail on this area yet but it also

looks like it could be related to a processing site.

You'll notice it's not a crater. It has "raised relief" as opposed to a typical crater hole.

And possibly a barrier around it or a pipeline. It also could be a

personnel or materials shaft or tube.

The lower end certainly looks like it's going into the ground.

An early design submitted from outside industry to NASA.

The modules are from a program called:

Project Moonlab (1968)

This type is expandable to any configuration like the more recent modules in the video.

The similarity of the components to the east site is astounding.

And the scale of the TBM-looking cylinder is correct.

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Module Comparison

You can see the similarity to the west sites components also.

But if it's a processing plant, it naturally wouldn't be in the same configuration and have

larger components to accommodate machinery. Which it does, dead center and to the right, just below the slot.

The east sites similarity is just amazing. I didn't fill-in all the areas with color coding in that location to make it easier

to compare with the ground level platforming and shading.

60's model

(Electrically Powered)

Same company built Yucca TBM

(Construction & Tunneling Services, Inc.)

Well, well...look who owns this one.

70's model but '82 photo

(Diesel Powered and self- propelled)

(manufacturer unknown)

Yucca Mountain TBM 90's model

Electric and 450ft long.

It only took 10 months to

build the Yucca Project TBM

Although it's been suspected nuclear powered TBM's would do the job on the Moon by melting the material and fusing it

to the inner walls as it passes, eliminating the need for underground tube inserts. I haven't found

any photos of one though. But I'm willing to bet fission powered TBM's do exist.

And I did find the U.S. Patent and drawings for the Nuclear Drill Penetrator filed in Jan. 1971

and received the patent in Sep. 1972.

Along with the full text of the drill and TBM proposal.

The TBM is supposed to be fashioned from this.

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&

And the Mother of all documents:

Systems and Cost Analysis for a Nuclear Subterrene Tunneling Machine. 1973

A Los Alamos Scientific Labs Publication # LA--5354-MS

LA-5354-MS.pdf

This is a very informative document.

In 1973 this machine was capable of a 24ft diameter tunnel.

This is known as the NSTM

(Nuclear Subterrene Tunneling Machine)

Also included in this document is,

EXCAVATION, BOREHOLES, OPERATION, TRANSPORTABLE REACTORS
SUBTERRENE PENETRATORS and much more.

&

Same Type Machine/Different Configuration

From:

Lunar Subsurface Architecture Enhanced By Artificial Biosphere Concepts/

Second Conference On Lunar Bases And Space Activities 1988

Subselene Development pdf (1.26Mb) 6 pages A device called a subselene nuclear powered melt tunneler was presented in 1985 by J. W. Neudecker and J. C. Rowley (Rowley and Neudecker, 1985). This concept used heat from a nuclear reactor to melt rock and form a self-supporting, glass-lined tunnel. They favored subselene tunneling for the following reasons: (1) the process uses highly energy efficient nuclear power supply. (2) it does not require water or other rare volatiles for open system residue handing or cooling. (3) the mechanism can penetrate through a varied sequence of rock types without complicated configurational changes. (4)the process forms its own support structure as it goes along. (5)the system is highly adaptable to automated operation.

____________________________________________________________

This document has the different types of rock penetrators used in the Subterrene applications.

Section III has the conceptual applications and types. As well as photos of results.

LA-5689-MS.pdf

Two people are credited with making these and hundreds, if not thousands of the LASL documents available to us.

Online and on DVD. Gregory Walker and Carey Sublette.

Los Alamos Labs Library blocked online access to these documents in 2002.

But not before these two people retrieved and preserved them.

All LASL documents and publications on the 4 DVD set can be found and downloaded here:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/index1.html

(The Federation of American Scientists)

I highlighted in yellow other areas of suspicion:

It seems logical there would be support sites.

We had them at the remote location in Australia for exploratory teams,

logistics support sites, security, transportation and local resident personnel.

So I looked even closer. I can't believe what I'm seeing.

Although these other areas are very small, some have a little detail.

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I made this context image for easy location outside Tsiolkovsky.

It took some time having only the above photo for reference.

Like the shapes, the landslide rubble has a unique pattern also.

That's what I looked for and eventually found it's location.

Context

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Original

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It's about a twenty five mile diameter sink-hole. Now we know what a "Lobate Landslip" is.

If they had said, "a sink-hole outside Tsiolkovsky", I would have found it in a second,

instead of the two hours trying to locate it.

Lobate is a seldom used term used in geology

with the exception of medical which it's used for

describing the lobes or condition of...according to Webster's.

Here is the location of Tsiolkovsky

on the Far Side from Clementine.

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Modern space exploration has given NASA and the scientific community a new and

confusing vocabulary. Most of the new terminology they use are derivatives of foreign languages.

Which makes them even more confusing if you happen to know those languages.

Another little frustrating effect this has on me is...

Just because the Moon is a foreign planet, doesn't mean

we have to give all of it's features foreign names.

Craters and features named after people is fine but the rest is

Greek, Latin, Roman, Biblical and several others.

I think I'll create a Moon map with all English words.

 AVI & WMV Versions Implicating A Certain Organization.

This is one of the flight path revolutions and photos from Apollo 15's approach to the area.

What's interesting to me is... they were interested enough to take this HiRes photo of the sink-hole.

The cameras were switched on manually and took photos automatically.

So there is previous and next sequential photos that could have been chosen.

But eventually, this photo was chosen to be posted at the Apollo archive.

But no others of the surrounding area. That could suggest they didn't want to hide it.

 I've also noticed the Apollo archive hasn't posted any other photos showing clear errors.

The way the archive is set up, they have the photos in close sequence in each missions time frame, with

selected photos that would fit within that time frame. So, they were able to be selective in what was posted.

So why would they post only one that has errors in it and not mention that little fact?

Or why didn't they select the next or previous sequential photo?

The AS15 photo was taken with the 70mm Hasselblad which has a 5 inch wide negative.

The prints this can produce and still be clear, is more than half the size of your average poster.

But they most likely used 16x20 or the largest at 20x24 prints for ease of search. Someone had to see this.

Another odd note is...on the LPI site, the previous sequential photo, #12740 is the same photo rotated.

What's at the lower end of this sink-hole?

I haven't been able to locate any other photos around this area of Tsiolkovsky from this AS15 group.

Except for the group from the LPI site which are all lo-res.

And the wider-angle mapping metric high altitude passes.

After my experiences with the scanning authority,

I want to find another source.

They probably do exist but they aren't readily available

online, unless you want to trust the above library.

And there are other agencies that have copies.

The video below is the mapping metric photos as is the context image.

These are beautifully clear and free of any anomalies.

And this video I do recommend viewing in full screen.

Because the video is mostly hi-res photos.

Download Tsiolkovsky's Secret  (35.3Mbs) AVI

An ironic note: For the music in this video, I used a track from the soundtrack:

"Clear And Present Danger"

It was the perfect length and with dramatic sections in the right places

and as it turns out, the perfect title:

Track: "Searching For Clues"

Download Tsiolkovsky's Secret 3 sites (15.6Mb) WMV

Here is a QuickTime clip of the ILC Space Products (now ILC Dover)

Habitat/Lab Modules seen in the videos.

214 bytes (really) MOV

You can click on it and it will play in a new window...

(if you have QT installed on your computer)

...or you can right click and "save target as".

One last note on this:

 I have contacted numerous agencies, both military and

scientific that cannot give me even a guess as to what these are.

And I don't mean "official public release" personnel, I have contacts in both areas

that are not in the divisions which give the public and press generic explanations.

That tells me two things:

This is an unknown type of anomaly, and I find that highly unlikely because of the

millions of film photos already taken in space, or they do know what it is and won't reveal what's going on.

And I think the latter is true.

I have also contacted many professional photographers, studios and developing labs.

And none of them have seen this as an anomaly in film. Or seen anything like it before.

Most of them were as intrigued as I am and some asked me if they could analyze it themselves.

After I informed them it's a public domain image, we may get more on this which I will post below this paragraph.

Update: A contact I know, whom works for a well known, large processing lab,

and also asked not to be revealed because it may jeopardize position, has confirmed the shapes are not

debris on the photo or a processing anomaly. The reliable source also stated: "There is nothing

more that can be added to your analysis that would be of any importance."

Well, that's another good sign I'm on the right track.

A little bonus I found in Tsiolkovsky

On the mountain inside the crater, there's a "Face of Kong".

I realize it's a natural geo-formation but thought it amusing none the less.

It retains its formation in all revolutions of the CSM no matter what the angle or shading.

I find that fact interesting. In some it actually looks like it has eyes.

I found about 15 images of these fly-overs where you can clearly see the face.

Here's 5 from progressive revolutions at different angles.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/catalog/metric/mission/?15

Match the four digit number in the files with the revolution magazine.

Full image and close-ups.

Full images are 3Mb JPG's and close-ups are less than 1Mb.

Another observation:

Apollo 17 took the same flight paths in revolution numbers 62, 66 and 74.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/catalog/metric/mission/?17

Why? With all the missions combined, including Clementine, the Lunar Orbiters, Rangers and Russian,

and the last, Lunar Prospector, only 20% of the Moons surface was photographed with hi-res close ups.

Or so they say. But I can't believe this is the facts. We get to see 20% is what I believe.

Even so, wouldn't it make more sense to take a different path for more coverage?

That also tells me there's something there still of great interest.