November 7, 2009

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Dark Halo Rocket

LPOD-Nov7-09.jpg

composite image by Philip J. Stooke

The attached image shows three views of a small area just north of the Apollo 12 landing site. In fact it's only 200 m northeast of the Apollo 12 LM itself. These images cover an area approximately 100 m across from top to bottom. The one on the left is from Lunar Orbiter 3, the other two are from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter with low and high sun angles. A prominent small dark spot was first seen in the high sun LROC image. Comparison with the others shows it was visible in the low sun LROC image, but not the Lunar Orbiter image. Apparently it formed after the Lunar Orbiter image, taken early in 1967, but before the LROC images taken in the last few months. No Apollo 12 activities occurred at this location. The most likely explanation is that this dark spot marks the place where Philip J. Stooke

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