What Is Wrong With This Picture?
Apollo photo irregularities remain.
All images in this article courtesy of NASA.
Quite a bit of debate has surrounded the numerous photo collections of the Apollo moon missions. From the parallel shadow angles to John Young’s jump salute showing dust from the rear video angle but no dust in front still photo angle. Much has been revealed in professional photographer Jack White’s Apollo photo study (link below) and it is highly recommended to check out his work.
One thing that has caught my attention outside of Jack’s comprehensive examination, was the images shot of the earth from the moon’s surface. If there is any fakery being done, it is quite evident in the earth photos since they are in the wrong position from the moon’s angle of view.
What is wrong with the picture above? This earth shot was from the Apollo 17 mission. They landed 20 degrees from the moon’s equator. The earth’s angle is about 45 degrees from the horizon. However, that is the wrong location. Since there is no earth rise or earth set, as it lies in a fixed position. It should have been directly overhead. A difficult shot to make with a chest mounted camera with no viewfinder. The Hasselblad camera would have to be removed from its chest mount and pointed vertically with the hope it appeared in-frame for the shot.
But there are other problems too. Such as the size of the earth. It appears smaller in size than when looking at the moon from earth. The earth is 3.7 times larger and the distance is the same. It should be much larger. In fact, it’s actually smaller in size than what one would observe of the moon from earth!
In this picture shot during the Apollo 17 mission the earth is at an even higher angle, although slightly larger than the boulder image. But as stated above, the earth is stationary in the moon's sky.
So the earth is in the wrong position in both images and too small in size as seen from the moon’s surface. Astronomers have to know this is incorrect. Have any of them come forward? None. They know what abuse will be heaped on them if they point this out. Nobody wants to work through their professional life as a “toil foil hat” wearer.
And besides that, how come the Apollo era earth photos never show the aurora borealis? It’s been active every day since the earth began. But we never see any images of it from space in the space program till the Space Shuttle program and the International Space Station (ISS) commenced. Why? What were they really doing up there?
Even this picture of the crescent earth has issues. Where are the city lights? The clouds cannot cover them all. Once again, the northern lights are missing as well.
As astronaut Dr. Brian O’Leary said at a UFO conference in 1999, “If some of the film was spoiled, it’s remotely possible they [NASA] may have shot some scenes in a studio environment to avoid embarrassment.”
An amazing admission! According to Dr. O’Leary, the possibility exists that NASA would fake images if the film were ruined. And they may have done just that in the Apollo 17 example provided here. That was always a clear risk of film damage since there was no radiation shielding on the camera body and besides radiation issues, the effects of being in a vacuum can damage film as well. In fact, if they really were on the moon, I fail to see how they did not damage all the film reels shot in such a toxic environment.
In conclusion, they either made it to the moon and the film was damaged and to be reproduced in a studio or else it was all a cold war propaganda stunt.
Sources
Jack White's Apollo Studies
https://www.aulis.com/jackstudies_0.htm
Dr Brian O’Leary
https://www.aulis.com/nasa2.htm
Project Apollo Archive