While many folks have delineated much of the oddity photographed on the
surface seen in the public releases, and millions more are familiar with
Apollo 17's public mission, not many to my knowledge have faced the dead
reckoning of its Hidden Mission or what it was exactly that drew us there in
the first place. It has been lying in plain sight all along in the orbital
photos: once again, orbital photos not widely seen, and rarely displayed.
These were taken by the Apollo 17
panoramic camera during high sun, and show the entire massif as lit from above
and over varying angles of obliquity, therefore eliminating the shadows over
the west side in this article's previously shown high resolution images,
revealing not only the spectacular and accurate as claimed hexagonal shape,
but also stratigraphic details of the ruined and collapsed arcology within
this shape.
Some may think
all the surface strangeness I denote here is but conjecture, hardly provable
and vastly differing from the official accounts, and the hill I say is
possibly artificial isn't even hexagonal, and appears to be no more than a
glorified dirt heap. All I can say to that is that yeah, both the official
account itself and my interpretation thereof are fishy- deal with it, however
your mind allows; but pictures speak louder than words.
This Massif is something special,
something...wonderful. We walked right up to it. We rode under it to and fro,
taking many exquisitely detailed photographs while putting the maps, antennae
and TV camera in the way. We circled above it repeatedly and took super high
resolution imagery then put it promptly away so virtually no one could see
it.. We dug around with an actual geologist, (a good one too might I add)
found red soil, saluted our flag, then published many papers describing what a
wonderfully dull spot of desolation it is... We planted explosives all over it
then crashed parts of our no longer useful spacecraft into it to make a big
bang; and then classified the results of the experiment (which might I remind
everyone again, Chapel Bell IS still classified).
What I'd like to know is.. when will it
be declassified, and when are we going back?
Click HERE
to see a larger enhanced version of this view (AS17-P-2894)
AS well, here are 2 more large enhanced
versions of this area
(AS17-P-2314)
(AS17-P-2309)
Now for a 3-D view of the Apollo 17
landing site, courtesy Jeff Williams of the magnificent
MarsUnearthed.com,
whose anaglyphic wizardry has long given us fantastically realistic stereo
images we'd have otherwise not seen. Thank you Jeff for your wonderful
contribution.
These
images require red/blue glasses. In the thumbnail below, he has detailed the
actual landing area with a star, click it for the
un-annotated full high resolution 3-D image.
On observing the terrain, I'd say that
even though these images naturally exaggerate the relief, this was definitely
one hairy landing.
Gene Cernan is without a doubt one hell of a pilot.
Further study and remarkable photos of
this area and more are yet to come.
To be continued
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