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Before going to my main site you may be interested in a photo

depicted in the new book getting attention today, Dark Mission....

Here is one of the photos from the book reported by the Russian Pravda news release:

Captioned: Ancient city ruins

I already had the image this came from in two versions.

Click to enlarge:

Original (cropped) 109Kb jpg

AS17-1672 (M) Full image below

Close-up, contrast/bright adjustments 106Kb jpg

From AS17-P-10181

Below are the full size LPI photos that the above images were cropped from.

AS17-M-1672 Location

(3.56Mbs)

AS17-M-1672 (LPI)

(3.29Mbs)

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo

/catalog/metric/revolution/?AS17R36

AS15-P-10176 (532Kbs)

Note: This version is dark and needs to be lightened.

Source: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/catalog/pan/revolution/?AS15R72Cf

AS15-P-10181 (630Kbs)

Source: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/catalog/pan/revolution/?AS15R72Ca

This formation is a volcanic caldera.

I will try to find the source of these images and post it here. These are from the Apollo 15 & 17 missions.

I'm afraid this is another of the authors fanciful theories without merit to promote book sales.

UPDATE:

I found the source confirming my explanation above.

Along with the original images. Scroll down near the bottom of the following page:

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-362/ch7.1.htm

Just in case the above page "disappears" (NASA is notorious for doing this),

I copied the entire page and made it into a pdf.

The image and descriptions start on page 14.

Apollo Over The Moon (755Kbs) Chapter 7

Below is the description in "Apollo Over The Moon".

[219] FIGURE 232 - The steep-walled but shallow D-shaped depression near the center of the photograph is apparently a unique feature. It is located in a patch of mare on the foothills of the Montes Haemus, west of Mare Serenitatis.

Measured along its straight side, the depression is about 3 km wide. It is situated atop a very gentle circular dome that appears to be somewhat smoother than the surrounding mare surface. As is more clearly shown in the accompanying stereogram (fig. 233), the many bulbous structures on the floor give it a blister-like appearance.

The depression is believed to be volcanic, probably a caldera (El-Baz, 1973b).

Figure 234 explains the probable sequence of events leading to the formation of this unusual structure.

NASA SP-362 was not in a downloadable format,

so I purchased the document and created a pdf of the entire series.

(right click to save) Apollo Over The Moon PDF (14.5Mbs) 335 pages.

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