Brad Guth posts the link to this picture

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/...7/10075941.jpg

A picture for which, he has these comments:

"This next official NASA photo (from the Apollo-17 mission, as that indirectly linked by the previous URL) may represent something like that infamous "C rock" image, as that representing yet another mistake or oversight that somehow released an image which NASA did not intend, as this official image (taken by an official Apollo camera using the very same film) clearly demonstrates that stars most certainty could and should have been sufficiently captured in most of the lunar landscape photos"

"What can one say about this following image but "OOPS!"

One can see the very same image at:

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/...7/10075941.htm

... where the text informs us that

"The white dots surrounding the Lunar Module are debris from the Saturn S-IVB stage separation"

In other words: The white dots are not stars, but "debris from the Saturn S-IVB stage separation".

However, please note that Brad Guth does NOT link to http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/...7/10075941.htm, where one can read the description. No, he links to http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/...7/10075941.jpg, where one can only see the image and not read the text, which explains the white dots.

A coincidence ? I think not !! [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]



<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Cyberspaced on 2002-06-15 19:51 ]</font>