11-06-2009, 09:58 PM
Wow, that's an amazing undertaking in Burbank, I didn't know they did that! That's very impressive!
I will have to take a look at some of those other links after the weekend passes, they look to be very interesting.
I can at least comment on the attached image now though, it seems to me to most likely be an artifact of digital image compression. The image itself is fairly distorted in other ways to suggest this (blobby areas where detail is low, and evenly spaced horizontal bars of lighter areas (which is some other form of distortion unrelated to compression actually, not sure what they are)). Using the non-functional link you posted I was able to extract longitude and latitude coordinates out of the URL for that location on the moon (-2 lat & 311 long) and put them in to the "google moon" site to find the same location but at a higher resolution (also compared neighboring craters & landforms to make sure it was the right spot):
http://www.google.com/moon/#lat=-3.31601...long%20311
In this cleaner image the artifact (or possible base) is not present. If we put aside the possibility that it is compression related we could perhaps speculate that NASA and/or Google have digitally painted the base out. But I would draw attention to the scale key at the bottom of the google page. If the base is real in the first image, it's at least 25-30 miles long. For reference, that's about 25-30 times bigger than Area 51 in Nevada:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s...5&t=h&z=13
Love and light,
L.
I will have to take a look at some of those other links after the weekend passes, they look to be very interesting.
I can at least comment on the attached image now though, it seems to me to most likely be an artifact of digital image compression. The image itself is fairly distorted in other ways to suggest this (blobby areas where detail is low, and evenly spaced horizontal bars of lighter areas (which is some other form of distortion unrelated to compression actually, not sure what they are)). Using the non-functional link you posted I was able to extract longitude and latitude coordinates out of the URL for that location on the moon (-2 lat & 311 long) and put them in to the "google moon" site to find the same location but at a higher resolution (also compared neighboring craters & landforms to make sure it was the right spot):
http://www.google.com/moon/#lat=-3.31601...long%20311
In this cleaner image the artifact (or possible base) is not present. If we put aside the possibility that it is compression related we could perhaps speculate that NASA and/or Google have digitally painted the base out. But I would draw attention to the scale key at the bottom of the google page. If the base is real in the first image, it's at least 25-30 miles long. For reference, that's about 25-30 times bigger than Area 51 in Nevada:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s...5&t=h&z=13
Love and light,
L.