Hi Levelwind very interesting images and good find. I see that you have highlighted a structure in red. Did you notice the pole or rod like structure which seems to run upwards across the face of 2 or 3 rocks / structures?
I have tried to highlight it below for you with arrows. Also a 2nd crack or pole running off right. Or could this be a shadow of the first maybe?
I also find it interesting that these rocks are "rounded"cracked and slightly worn down but how is that possible if there is no atmosphere or water?I believe there is a certain amount of radiation weathering where cosmic rays hit the surface and degrade the rocks over time. Now.. whether this is enough to produce the rounded rocks, I dont know but some could be meteorites which landed on the lunar surface too.
Looks like there is evidence of life or past life everywhere in our solar system. Here is a strange object from the same set of pictures from the site Goggog linked. I thought at first this was behind the rock but as I zoomed in it appears to be obscuring part of the rock. I also find it interesting that these rocks are "rounded"cracked and slightly worn down but how is that possible if there is no atmosphere or water?
-- Edited by Macten on Wednesday 3rd of February 2016 11:26:40 PM
I have produced a true 3D view from one of the stereo pairs and the result was very successful.
As the images are in colour I increased the colour saturation on one of the images and it's amazing how many different coloured objects I spotted.
Here is a sectional view from one of the original images I downloaded. The image has been resampled due to the large size of the downloaded image.
If you hover your cursor over the view, the number of the image should appear. I have placed a green ellipse around an object that caught my eye straight away.
Viewing the detail I was beginning to think this view was of the martian surface and not the lunar surface due to the shapes of some of the very small objects.
I think we are going to find some very interesting finds and other anomalous features in these Chang'e views.
Luckily, Emily Lakdawalla from the Planetary Society spent the last week navigating the Chinese database and is currently hosting a suite of China’s lunar images on the Planetary Society Website.
However, the ones on that webpage in the link to techcrunch come from Emily Lakdawalla and have the sky blacked out and there are various other blacked-out parts of those photos. I hope those images are the ones which are compressed for the web and the real things will be larger and better quality. I suspect Emily knows that most people will not bother to go to the Chinese website and create an account there to get the originals.
I have not managed to get an account on the Chinese website yet, and it is all in Chinese characters too but I hope when I do, there will be better images there. Somehow I doubt it, but you never know though... maybe I will be pleasantly surprised.
For a moment there I got all excited as I thought the Chinese might have got one over on the USA and NASA.