Showing posts with label C05 (PhotoAnomalies). Show all posts
Showing posts with label C05 (PhotoAnomalies). Show all posts

5.32 How come famous photographers claim that the Apollo photos are fake?

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IN A NUTSHELL: They’re famous photographers, but they’ve always worked on Earth. They have no experience of photography in space, where lig...

5.31 Why is there a man in a waistcoat in a photo taken on the Moon?

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IN A NUTSHELL: It’s not a man in a waistcoat: it’s astronaut Harrison Schmitt, wearing a spacesuit. His image is distorted by being reflect...

5.30 Why is there a fake photograph of Alan Shepard on the Moon?

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IN A NUTSHELL: Because it’s a montage used originally in an autobiography of two astronauts, Deke Slayton and Alan Shepard, to illustrate S...

5.29 Does this spacewalk photo show the reflection of the movie set in the astronaut’s visor?

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IN A NUTSHELL: No. It's a photo from a ground test. THE DETAILS: A photograph circulating on the Internet is described as an image ...

5.28 Why is there a sharp dividing line between the foreground and the background?

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IN A NUTSHELL: Because it’s the outline of the natural rises and hollows of the lunar terrain. The same effect occurs in desert photos take...

5.27 Why is this photo of the LM on the moon so obviously fake?

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IN A NUTSHELL: Because it’s not an official photo: it’s a montage, clearly stated as such in the original source. This montage, however, so...

5.26 Why do Aldrin’s boots shine in shadow? Are they lit by a spotlight?

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IN A NUTSHELL: No. The sheen on Buzz Aldrin’s boots is not caused by a studio spotlight but by the bright sunlight reflected by Armstrong’s...

5.25 Why is the United States marking on the LM so bright?

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IN A NUTSHELL: Because it’s reflective and it’s lit by the glare from the daylit lunar surface. In fact it’s equally readable in the pictur...

5.24 Why is this astronaut’s shadow missing?

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IN A NUTSHELL: Because he was jumping when the snapshot was taken and so his shadow is displaced sideways and isn’t visible in cropped vers...

5.23 How could the astronauts take so many photos in such a short time?

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IN A NUTSHELL: By taking many of them in rapid bursts of 8-12 shots to form panoramic sequences ; for example, almost half of the pictures ...

5.22 How come the EVA photo of Michael Collins is fake?

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IN A NUTSHELL: Because a conspiracy theorist altered the original to make it look fake. THE DETAILS: According to Moon hoax theorist Ra...

5.21 How come NASA has published retouched photographs?

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IN A NUTSHELL: Merely to repair scratches or blemishes in old scans of duplicates. The high-resolution master scans available through NASA ...