As the Polish astronomer Professor Ludwik Seidler wrote in his interesting survey work Atlantis (Moscow: Mir, 1966), the Atlantis catastrophe caused a worldwide flood of Atlantological literature. Since almost everything that could be learned and thought of has already been written about this legendary island-state, I will limit myself to only one little-known aspect of the topic.
In 1978, the journal "Tekhnika - Molodezhi" in the first issue published the original hypothesis of engineer-geodesist Tatiana Masenko. It turns out that if you look at the Moon with a 25-30-fold optical device, you get the impression that in their general outlines the lunar "seas" are very reminiscent of … earthly continents. The raised areas of the Earth correspond to large depressions on the Moon, that is, there is a kind of interplanetary connection "convex-concavity".
“Moreover,” Masenko noted, “this relationship is inverse not only for the levels of the areas being compared (raising-lowering), but also for their location (the fact that there is east longitude on Earth, west on the Moon, and vice versa). So, the main western group of "seas" (Ocean of Storms and others) is similar in configuration to Asia, the Sea of Rains resembles Europe, and the Sea of Clouds is the southern tip of Africa … The eastern group of "seas" (Clarity, Tranquility) is similar to North and South America, respectively …"
True, the author of this hypothesis was initially embarrassed that the lunar "Europe" is located too close to the "Americas" and partially merges with them, and the Sea of Cold and the Sea of Crises have no modern terrestrial analogues. However, taking into account the hypothesis of Alfred Wegener about the division in the Paleozoic era (541–251 million years ago) of the terrestrial supercontinent of Gondwana into today's continents, everything falls into place. The Sea of Cold in this case reflects the "land bridge", which, as it was established, only 50 million years ago, connected Europe with Greenland. Its eastern continuation, a kind of "dotted line" of islands, passed through the Arctic.
Taking into account the assumption of geologists about the existence of the Pacific Ocean continent Pacifida, the remains of which may be Easter, Galapagos and others, Tatyana Masenko suggested that the Seas of Crises and Abundance are “photographs” of this vast land. In this regard, Masenko makes the following conclusion: the surface of the Moon is a mirror-reduced reflection of the surface of the ancient Earth.
The mechanism of the observed phenomenon, apparently, is rather complicated. Commenting on an article by Masenko in the journal, a very competent geologist and astronomer, vice-president of the All-Union Astronomical and Geodetic Society, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences V. B. Neumann wrote that, in principle, this phenomenon is possible: "As a result of the poorly studied interaction of a system of two celestial bodies closely spaced from each other, the relief of the depressions on the visible side of the Moon is really an imprint of the ancient continents of the Earth."
Let us also assume that the configuration of the terrestrial continents is captured as it was in those days when the Earth and the Moon, rotating and turning, were staring "in the face of each other." In this case, having on the miraculous lunar "portrait" of the young Earth, apart from the present continents, disappeared Arctida and Pacifida, is it possible to find the imprint of the legendary Atlantis on the lunar surface? If, of course, there really was one …
I remember that I shared my thoughts with a colleague, now well-known author of books on atlantology and "Tungus studies" A. I. Voitsekhovsky. Alim Ivanovich was so fired up with the idea of an unexpected possibility of discovering his beloved Atlantis that after talking with me he immediately rushed to the Mission Control Center (MCC) and began methodically ransacking a large lunar globe. The search was rewarded.
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Where the Sea of Clarity ("North America") and the Sea of Rains ("Europe") parted to form the "Atlantic Ocean", there is a vast lunar depression, most of which is the Sea of Steam. Isn't this a positive answer to the almost Hamlet question about Atlantis: "Was it or was not it?"
It turns out there was! At least in those days when the Earth looked from Space as it is captured on the lunar "negative". And she was not just anywhere, but exactly where she should be - between North America and southern Europe. Do we not have in this case one of the most convincing proofs of the reality of the legendary Atlantis?
And why she disappeared into the ocean later is another question …
Nikolay Yakovlevich Dorozhkin - candidate of technical sciences, member of the Writers' Union of Russia