palosheights wrote:
just looking at the half moon and wondering why photos of the dark side of the moon were never taken...
andy
Actually, there are pictures of the unseen side of the moon floating around. You have to do some research to find them. There are also posters of the front and back side of the moon featuring craters and names, but I've only seen the hand graphically drawn version, I haven't seen them as actual pictures. And if I did, I would take it as a given that certain features would have been air-brushed out. Why do I think that? The moon is an interesting body just out of our reach and has been the focus of interest of many people, including those who went to the moon. I ask myself why there aren't a plethora of actual pictures and descriptions (close up, especially) around.
NASA was pretty proud of the moon trips, and then, suddenly, all plans were scrapped, already-built rockets and launch areas were allowed to rust;... has anyone heard whatever happened to all of the moon rocks?; there's an astronaut who won't discuss his first walk on the moon, and the rest of them talk about it in abstract terms... I'm sorry, but, after all the hoopla, all of a sudden, there's a great big secret that no one seems to want to discuss.
As for the back side, I have seen a quick scan that was taken, I think, when an astronaught was in the "mother ship" circling the moon, waiting for the rest to finish their walk. It was in an episode of a series called "The Apollo Years". During that quick scan, I saw what could only be tremendously tall spires. The commentator made absolutely no comment about these. Really, the PTB think the masses are stupid... and outside of a few voices "shouting in the wilderness", I wouldn't call the rest stupid, but certainly busy with whatever "life" hits us with. And the PTB are counting on that.
The pictures exist. But take a look at some of the pics that are on this thread and you could get a good clue as to what's happening on the surface of the moon.
snowbird