Alien Anomalies

Yes Macten, when I originally explored the image and tested it in the negative I thought it was a crater as well. But then I thought if it is a crater there should be a shadow cast. The peculiar thing about this particular anomaly is that the sun would appear to be striking all of the anomalous object without the usual form of shadow showing. There are many block-type objects and many of them are grouped closely together. Could it possibly be that these objects are geological formations? With many of the lunar images the finding of a tower or tall thin object will usually be accompanied by some type of rectilinear formation at its base.

Hi Timewarp regarding location. Forgive me if I'm wrong but in your original image I believe the crater in the foreground with the central peak is Moretus. See my slide. Hope it helps to locate your anomaly.

In this view I have made some adjustments to show more surface detail without too much degradation of the image.

I am just amazed at how much structural object detail can be observed even though the image is not as sharp as I would like to see it.

Also, take note of some of the black areas. Do they appear as shadows or are they possibly areas of water (artificial or natural lakes)?

It is recommended to zoom into the view to observe some of the smaller object detail.

Thanks to goggog for providing the image.

I have made a positive of it and have increased the contrast and brightness and have used the unsharp filter to improve edge definition.

I have enclosed some of the areas in rectangles with some of the main features of interest rectangled in red.

If anyone says there's nothing on the moon except rocks and redundant mission hardware, tell them to take a concentrated look at the images in this thread.

My personal opinion is that there are many structural formations and other features showing with many signs of artificiality all over the terrain.

Can these shapes be interpreted as being large rocks?

goggog, I am still in the process of trying to locate the original location of the image.

I was sure at the time I downloaded it the view was used as the background image for a phys.org web page as I have bookmarked the site.

Since uploading the image to the forum the background image used on the site in question has mysteriously disappeared.

I am still searching for the image as the resolution is much better than what we normally have to deal with.

I suspect that the image may be a view from a previous Chang'e orbital mission but I could be wrong. Any thoughts on this from other members would be helpful.

Macten, Thank you for your input and for highlighting of the circular object. Your work is much appreciated. 

This is the original view as saved and resized to 900 pixels in png format.

During the Apollo 11 mission, both Armstrong and Aldrin said they saw two large spacecraft on the edge of the crater.

Well, take a look at this circular object which can be seen to the right in the main image above. Also, note the other detail showing in the image.

Unfortunately, I am at a loss to locate the original image but I suspect that it may be a capture from a previous Chang'e orbital mission.

Anyway, if we had images of this kind of quality to observe I am sure we would find a huge amount of very interesting object detail on the lunar surface.

What do you make of this particular object?

qmantoo, Just to clarify things, here is an adjusted and resized version of the background image in its original format.

I obtained the address of the image from the 'source code' of the original web page.

The image was rotated 28 degrees to the right as I didn't want to place undue strain on my neck.

Adjustments were made to contrast and brightness to produce this image as the original is much lighter.

The image shown below is a jpeg version and not a png.