This post is about article from Washington Post published on 23 November 1962. I took the article from the WP archive website, but due to some copyright issues (I dont blame NASA bastards) they removed original photo from the article, so I used other sources to get it. Below is the article:

NASA Photo
Six statuesque shadows appear in this Lunar Orbiter 2 photo of the moon, the longest one at center.


6 Mysterious Statuesque Shadows Photographed on Moon by Orbiter
By Thomas O'Toole Washington Post staff writer

Six statuesque and mysterious shadows on the moon were photographed and relayed to earth yesterday by Lunar Orbiter 2.

Ranging from one about 20 feet long to another as long ast 75 feet, the six shadows were hailed by scientists as one of the most unusual features of the moon ever photographed.

One scientist described the needle-like shadows as the moon's "Christmas tree effect." Still another description called it the "Fairy Castle" effect. On seeing the picture, one scientist wanted to call the region the moon's "Valley of Monuments."

The region of the moon where the shadows turned up is just to the western edge of the moon's Sea of Tranquility. It is an area just north of the moon's equator, slightly to the east, or right, of center.

Scientists said they have no idea what is casting the shadows. The largest shadow is just the sort that would be cast by something resembling the Washington Monument, while the smallest is the kind of shadow that might be cast by a Christmas tree.

Four of the shadows are clustered together and are on the slope of an "old" lunar crater—one that has been there for a long time, more than 1 million years.

All around the six shadows is the more familiar lunar landscape—the crater-marked face that gives the moon the appearance of a cooking pancake just before it is flipped over.

The picture was the most dramatic photo taken thus far by Orbiter 2 and came after the spacecraft transmitted two other "unusual" lunar views over the weekend.

One showed a large crater so close up that scientists said it was about throe-fourths the size of the Rose Bowl. Another pictured a lunar rock field not unlike the sandlot field where youngsters might play baseball.

All three pictures were taken by Orbiter's 24-inch telephoto lens, which is capable of revealing objects on the moon the size of a manhole cover. The pictures were snapped from an altitude of about 30 miles or less.
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Interesting, isn't it? Smaller towers are lined up like Egyptian pyramids or Orion Belt stars.