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MOON & MARS TRUTH WHEN
THE DUST SETTLES

Report 158

March 1, 2009

 

The above first image is just a context image to familiarize some of you with the appearance of the equipment that will be under examination here in this report. On the left in the foreground, you see a Moon rover (LRV) with an astronaut in it and on the right just behind the LRV you see the Moon Lunar or Landing Module (LM) with it shiny foil showing. Note the wide stance of the LM legs and the footpad on the ground at the end of the leg on the right.

The equipment we're looking at here is from the Apollo 17 mission which was the last manned mission to the Moon to date as far as anything publicly admitted to. The last three manned Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions all had rovers. Rovers are folded up and on a pallet that is stored against the side of the LM in one of the areas where you see the shiny foil. Upon landing on the Moon, the astronauts get out and drop down the pallet with the folded two person rover. They unfold it and assemble it. All of these missions used the same type of equipment both as to the LM and the rover.

The anomalous Moon evidence we'll be examining below in this report as just samples will be drawn from two Moon missions, Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 and then we'll move on to some Mars Opportunity rover evidence. The reason I'm doing this is to demonstrate that the type of evidence you will see here spans decades of planetary exploration from the early 1970's to the 2000's and forms a consistent pattern of secrecy behavior and are obviously not isolated activities.

The above second image is of the Apollo 17 rover's right rear wheel/tire/fender area. This image is from one side edge of the original image to the other. One of the astronauts damaged the right rear fender and it was temporarily repaired with duct tape and that is why this image was taken and what it is suppose to be all about. However, note that the soil surface immediately in front of the tire and immediately behind it has not been disturbed by rover tracks.

Since lifting and carefully placing the rover in a spot on the Moon is impossible and since driving up to this position would leave tracks, then we have a problem with the evidence in this image. Okay, I thought to myself, I gotcha. However, as I expanded out my investigation of this, I found out that I was not the first to find this after all. To save me reporting time on this, you'll find some in depth interesting reporting on this at the following link http://apolloanomalies.com/rover_tracks_rebuttal.htm.

So is it a shut out for me or can I add anything to this discovery? As it turns out, yes I believe that I can in the above third image which is just a closer shot of the Apollo 17 rover right rear tire and wheel. Note that the tire is covered by a what appears to be a metal mesh and that crossing angled bands forming increased traction cleats have been added to the bottom of the tire that makes contact with the ground and of course should leave matching tread marks in that ground.

Now note the inner wheel and rim is covered with what appears to be very fine texture gray soil. On the Moon that soil is called regolith. One reason is that Moon regolith, it is theorized by the science communities, is primarily formed by objects impacting the Moon's surface. Over millions of years this impact and blasting effect grinds the soil up into very fine particles that would be considered dust or powder here on Earth. Therefore, in theory, the Moon's dusty powdery surface combined with a gravity only a 17th as much as Earth and no moisture equates to the soil often acting like a dry powder that when disturbed from the surface tends to hang in suspension in the air for a while.

Note two things in the above third image. Note that the very fine grained soil is adhering to the wheel including vertical and curving overhead surfaces as though there was some moisture in it causing it to do so with sticking power. That observation is significant suggesting the presence of moisture. Yet, even as this is clearly happening on the wheel surface, note that no soil at all, not a speck of it, appears to be adhering to the tire mesh or the cleats including even their fasteners on the bottom of the tire. Since much of the Moon soil is so finely textured, some of it should at least be embedded in the mesh but obviously isn't.

This suggests that this tire may have been positioned elevated in the air where the bottom of it was inspected and cleaned for that inspection. The bottom of this tire has obviously not yet been rolling around on the Moon's surface, if it is on the Moon at all, after having been cleaned. It was almost certainly cleaned in place on the wheel because the regolith crusted on the wheel has not been disturbed by removal from the rover. It may be that something different than what we have been told (an astronaut using a tool accidentally ripped the fender) happened requiring the tire to be inspected by raising the vehicle and then lowering it back down in this spot where the image was taken before the astronaut sitting in the rover (feet in image #2) drove it off.

The question of course is how did the bottom of that mesh and cleated tire surface get so clean. The lack of any rover tire tread marks in the soil both in front and behind the tire implies that it was lowered and placed in this spot after cleaning and that is not possible on the Moon. The astronauts do not have the equipment for this and they are too limited in their movements by those bulky awkward suits.

Then there is the issue of the lack of tire tracks in the soil/regolith. The soil is plenty soft enough for tracks because the adjacent astronaut foot prints can clearly be seen in the soil. The rover of course weighs much more than an astronaut and should leave deeper impressions. In the 2nd image, you can clearly see that the soil directly behind the tire is in a natural state and undisturbed. Although foot prints have disturbed the soil immediately in front of the tire, further forward can still be seen undisturbed soil as well as the small piece of the right front tire and its shadow under the rover. Obviously, the right front tire has not rolled across any of this regolith and left an impression either.

This evidence is not alone, there is a long litany of problems with the Moon science data like this. So you can perhaps understand why the researchers at the above link might come to the conclusion that a lot, if not all, of the Moon manned landing data was staged on a set here on Earth. Further, the incentive to fabricate was certainly there. Why? Because the Russians in those days were repeating one first after another with respect to getting into space and dealing with the Moon. This embarrassment could certainly create motivation for a panic to catch up here in America.

I don't profess to know the straight of it but under these playing catch up role circumstances, the temptation to fabricate would have been very great. It is unfortunately a too often exhibited characteristic of human behavior both on an individual level and on a collective level any where in the world.

What you are looking at in the above fourth image is one of the Apollo 11 Mission LM footpads covered in foil that is suppose to be resting on the Moon's surface. As you can see, the round footpad has a turned up shape at the edges forming a depression system within the pads interior. Further, the inner surface of the shallow bowl shape consists of all this wrinkled foil forming many different angles that would serve as good dust traps.

The combination of shallow bowl shape and wrinkled foil forming a depression and its location at the lowest point right against the ground is the perfect catch system. Now consider the LM lowering down for landing on the Moon's surface with its decent thruster burn nozzle pointed straight down right at the ground coming to within inches of it and blowing up a cloud of Moon regolith dust to hang suspended in the air over the site for a while in the low Moon gravity. You know this would be so. It would be impossible for some of the disturbed settling dust to not settle back down into this large shallow bowl shape and the shiny foil with its many traps would show every bit of it.

However, as you can clearly see in the above 4th image, there is no sign of any dust or regolith in this footpad shallow bowl shape. Further, it is the same with other shots of this and other Apollo 11 LM pads at these links: AS11-40-5902, AS11-40-5917, AS11-40-5918, AS11-40-5920, and AS11-40-5925. When you use these confirmation links, be sure to access the "Hi-Res" official image because it is much larger than the "standard" image and offers a much closer view of the Apollo 11 LM footpads than you see here confirming not a sign of dust or regolith inside the footpad shallow bowl shape. Once again I thought to myself, yep I gotcha. I should have known better on such older Moon material. Again, as I expanded my investigation on this type of evidence, I found others had beaten me to the punch with some good reporting here at http://www.aulis.com/jackstudies_22.html.

Evidence like this is small but crucial and unequivocal. Once again you can perhaps see how others could have come to the conclusion that these Moon landings were not real and may have been fakes. Now let's move on to the Mars evidence below.

The above fifth image shows a portion of the Mars Opportunity rover deck. This image is drawn from the official 1/4/2006 panorama titled "On the Rim of Erebus." It is a mosaic of many smaller images taken from Sols 652 through 663. Because the whole of this huge panorama image is a 360º view, the official original is presented in a cylindrical projection that causes some distortion in the rover decking you see above but this does not impact the kind of evidence presented here.

Now what must be understood is that all of the many solar cells and many of the other flat horizontal surfaces in this image including even the upright mast are covered over by smudge image tampering. That is, in fact, routine when it comes to the rover deck upper surfaces. Even so, it is not the flat surfaces that we are interested in so much as it is the nooks and crannies where dust and soil should collect and become trapped like at the screws, brackets, fittings, etc. Look closely at these spots and, try as you might, you will not find any soil or dust accumulations. In fact all this deck appears to be in clean pristine condition.

Now think of that. This rover has theoretically been in operation moving around on Mars for up to 663 Mars days and nights, the whole time in the open. That's nearly 22 months our time or almost 2 years and more importantly going through multiple warm and colder seasons and weather conditions. It has no doubt encountered frost as well as wind blown sediment many multiples of times. Yet there is no sign of any of this on the top deck surfaces that are natural catch systems. Even someone cleaning the deck with air blaster would be hard pressed to have gotten it this clean. The super clean rover looks like it just rolled out of a lab instead of plowing around on Mars continuously in the open for hundreds of days.

This strains credibility in obvious ways. How are we to have confidence in data that has these kind of credibility problems in it. Do you believe that this particular rover deck has been out in the open on Mars for nearly 2 years? How can you? Yet that is what we are suppose to believe.

DOCUMENTATION

http://www.apolloarchive.com/apg_thumbnail.php?ptr=231&imageID=AS17-147-22527. This link takes you to the ApolloArchive.com page for the official science data image from which my 1st report image of the LM and LRV together was drawn. On the page that opens, if the thumbnail image on the left or the "Hi-Res" text link in the middle will not work for you, then use the small text non java script "Standard" and "Hi-Res" links on the right side of the page.

http://www.apolloarchive.com/apg_thumbnail.php?ptr=382& imageID=AS17-137-20979. This link takes you to the ApolloArchive.com page for the official science data image from which my 2nd and 3rd report images of the rover right rear tire here were drawn. On the page that opens, if the thumbnail image on the left or the "Hi-Res" text link in the middle area will not work for you, use the small non java script text "Standard" and "Hi-Res" links on the right side.

http://www.apolloarchive.com/apg_thumbnail.php?ptr=622&imageID=AS11-40-5926. This link takes you to the ApolloArchive.com page for the official science data image from which my 4th report image of the LM footpad was drawn. On the page that opens, if the thumbnail image on the left or the "Hi-Res" text link in the middle area will not work for you, then use the small text non java script "Standard" and "Hi-Res" links on the right side of the page. You are urged to access the "Hi-Res" image because it will display an even larger image with a much closer view of the footpad and the absence of regolith than you see here in this report.

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/2006.html. This link will take you to the page where the year 2006 Opportunity panorama images are located from which the too clean rover deck evidence was drawn. There are a large number of panoramas there listed in order from the most recent down to the oldest in that year. This report evidence is the last listed and so you must scroll down to the very bottom of the page to access the 1/4/2006 "On the Rim of EreBus" image and accompanying narrative. Note that the largest image does not display but the "Browse" and "Medium" images do display.

, Investigator
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