In our time, when ufologists and astronomers practically do not believe in the existence of alien life forms at least on Mars and are looking for traces of intelligent life outside our solar system, there were adventurers who are ready to find signs of aliens on the moon.
While researchers are studying the images on their own, focusing on images taken by the American lunar probe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
To do this, Professor Paul Davis and Robert Wagner from Arizona State University are not going to equip an expedition to the moon, in their opinion, it is enough to simply analyze hundreds of thousands of photographs of the planet's surface.
“Aliens could have left messages, scientific instruments, debris, or evidence of mining operations on the dusty lunar surface that could be seen by telescopes and orbiting satellites,” notes author Ian Sample.
While the chances of finding evidence of long-standing alien visits are slim to none, scientists argue that a computerized study of images of the Moon would be reasonably inexpensive given the importance of the potential discovery.
While the researchers are studying the images on their own, focusing on the images taken by the American lunar probe Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which since mid-2009 has managed to photograph in high resolution about a quarter of the surface of our natural satellite.
Scientists have already found the Apollo landing sites, as well as American and Soviet robotic stations. Some of them could only be identified by an unusual shadow.
In total, NASA has posted about 340 thousand images in the public domain, when the probe covers the entire surface of the Moon, there will already be more than a million images. Analyzing them manually by a small group of enthusiasts is a futile task.
Therefore, scientists propose to write specialized software to search for unusual details on the surface of the satellite. Since there is no noticeable geological activity on the Moon, traces of intelligent activity must persist for millions of years.
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As for the impact of meteorites, the Apollo 12 seismograph showed that within a radius of 350 kilometers, a collision with a large asteroid (the size of a grapefruit) occurs only once a month. Thus, scientists point out that for the dust formed by such events to bury a man-made object, it must take hundreds of millions of years.