17 May '11 13:55>
Although I am a scientist and have always assumed the lunar landings to be true, there is one compelling hiccup in the photographic evidence that is rarely discussed and has no apparent resolution.
The lunar surface is dusty, lots of tiny loose particles are evident in footage whenever astronauts are filmed walking on the surface. In so doing they continually kick up that dust.
When a landing pod descends it must fire its retro-rockets to slow the speed of impact. On the moon, that creates a flurry of dust above the surface until the engine is switched off and under the lunar gravity the dust settles on the surface once again. The Apollo pod had several landing legs with flat wide feet. In all footage seen since 1969 there is no lunar dust sitting on any of the pods feet.
Unless the first two astronauts, Armstrong and Aldrin, were intensely 'moon proud' and took a broom with them this is a distinct and major flaw in archived footage.
The lunar surface is dusty, lots of tiny loose particles are evident in footage whenever astronauts are filmed walking on the surface. In so doing they continually kick up that dust.
When a landing pod descends it must fire its retro-rockets to slow the speed of impact. On the moon, that creates a flurry of dust above the surface until the engine is switched off and under the lunar gravity the dust settles on the surface once again. The Apollo pod had several landing legs with flat wide feet. In all footage seen since 1969 there is no lunar dust sitting on any of the pods feet.
Unless the first two astronauts, Armstrong and Aldrin, were intensely 'moon proud' and took a broom with them this is a distinct and major flaw in archived footage.