For some reason, in the images transmitted by the Jade Hare, the surface of our natural satellite appears brown, not gray.
The Chinese lunar rover "Yuytu" - "The Jade Hare" - became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon after the last Americans left it in December 1972 - the crew of Apollo 17 - Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.
In December 2013, the successfully landed "hare" transmitted pictures from the place of arrival. And they revived the disputes that had subsided about what color the moon was? She is brown in Chinese photos. In the sky - silvery. The Moon is about the same color and in numerous pictures taken by American astronauts directly on the surface of our natural satellite. This surface is either white or grayish-silvery in the sun. And in the shade - dark.
The Chinese have photographed the surface of the moon without the "hare" - it is brown.
Apollo 17 expedition American moon rover - rides on the gray moon
Several years ago, the famous American researcher of anomalous phenomena Joseph Skipper was the first to say that something is wrong with the color of the moon. He blamed NASA for the trick. Like, for some mysterious reason, the agency processed the lunar images posted on the official websites in the public domain. The real color of objects was etched out from everyone, making the landscapes black and white. Like an old movie.
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Skipper's suspicions were reinforced by a photograph he found from among those taken by the crew of the last Apollo. The picture shows Eugene Cernan - planting the American flag and taking pictures of himself, holding the camera at his outstretched hand. Schmitt walks around the lunar module, which is in front of both the flag, and the astronaut's spacesuit are bright and colorful. And the lunar surface is black and white. As usual.
The moon is gray, but the helmet reflects brown
But take a look at the glass of the helmet. It reflects both the lunar module and the surface on which it stands. The surface is brown. As in the 2013 Chinese pictures. And it looks like this is the real color of the moon.
“I don’t know why NASA bleached the images,” says Joseph Skipper. - Probably hiding something. After all, as a rule, removing the natural color of an object, they mask its structure. And the structure, in turn, can give out some details that should not fall into the field of view of the uninitiated.
According to the researcher, part of the photo with the flag was simply not processed due to an oversight. And the catch was revealed. And the Chinese did not process anything at all. They did not know that this was the way to go. The Americans did not warn them.
All shades of chocolate, not gray
The members of the Apollo 10 crew also testified to the fact that the Moon was brown. Then, in May 1969, the pilot of the lunar module was the same Eugene Cernan, the commander was Thomas Stafford, the pilot of the command module was John Young. Astronauts chose the landing site for Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, who were to be the first to set foot on the moon after just a couple of months.
Cernan and Stafford, undocked from the command module and approached the surface for 100 meters. Examined its color in detail. What made a detailed report. And took pictures.
In the report of the Apollo 10 crew, pardon the pun, it is written in black and white that the Moon is sometimes light brown, sometimes reddish brown, sometimes the color of dark chocolate. But not gray.
Surface of the Moon taken from the side
And in some pictures taken from Apollo 10, it is generally green with bright red blotches.
Strangely, the photos of Cernan, Stafford, and Young were the last ones to show the Moon in color. Further, starting with the first American landing, it became black and white.
In this picture, the moon is green
By the way, the astronauts from Apollo 17 found something amazing in color right next to the landing site. On Earth, they received enthusiastic and repeated shouts: "I can't believe … This is incredible … She is orange … As if something rusted here." This is about the soil that the astronauts are trying to collect in a bag. She must have been brought to Earth. But what the find was, no one has yet reported.
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There is a secret here.
The USSR pilot-cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who was friends with Stafford, explained to me about the color of the moon at one time: the whole thing is in the film on which they were filming, and in the reflectivity of the surface.
“Each person perceives light in his own way,” said Alexei Arkhipovich. - One seems to have a brown shade, another - a different shade. And photography is artificially invented layers. Any film is three colors. And a combination of three colors. The result depends on the processing. Depends on the angle of the light flux. One position of the luminous flux - one color. The sun is rising - a different color. The surface of the same color can reflect different wavelengths depending on the angle. And this is a different color.
I trust Alexey Arkhipovich. But I still don't understand: at first the Moon reflected in such a way that it was brown, and then it began to reflect in such a way that it became black and white on color film. And now she is brown again - in the Chinese pictures.
There is a secret here. Or is it some kind of catch?