Comments on: Video of the lunar far side from GRAIL/Ebb

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:52:26 +0000

Ebb and Flow? Are they voiced by Vicky Lewis? Oh, wait…

By: Sunny D

Sunny D — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:07:06 +0000

Does anyone have an explanation for the random black rectangles pasted on the moon?

And can we all finally say that there are alien bases? Look up the disclosure project in YouTube one man says he saw this in NASA.

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:24:07 +0000

Je3ro Says: “Where is the Google “Moon”???” “It’s been looong enough!”

Ok, maybe I’m missing sarcasm or something, but if not, here it is:

http://www.google.com/moon/

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:00:24 +0000

No one else sees it? Totally Meatwad from ATHF

By: Paulino

Paulino — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:36:38 +0000

So, the smiley crater is on the Moon, not on Mars…

By: Je3ro

Je3ro — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:55:39 +0000

Why not just show us the big video’s of stuff like this? or Stream it from a Sat.? Why we always get the snippets from cameras or blurred out this and blacked out that type photo’s?!

“Where is the Google “Moon”???” “It’s been looong enough!”

By: Astrophel

Astrophel — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:39:30 +0000

I hate news sites reporting this as “first ever video of the far side,” or worse, “dark side.” It’s the first video for the mission. I think Apollo 8 filmed the far side, and the Luna probes sent video too. Digital video was taken by Kaguya, etc.

I’ve run into exaggerated headlines so often, I just ignore them nowadays. “Is there life on Venus,” “Was Einstein wrong,” etc. Somebody said well when they recommended that if the answer to the headline is no, you shouldn’t write the article.

Anyway, the first comment refers to the upcoming black comedy about Nazis on the Moon produced by the Star Wreck guys using donations over the Internet as financing. It looks to be an actual thought-out movie with a professional cast and script.

By: CR

CR — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:34:20 +0000

Parts of the mare/lava field in the main part of the basin reminds me of the broken up ice on Europa… I’m guessing that as that lava was crusting over, it broke up and/or was broken apart by subsequent meteorite impacts, then solidified in those positions. Cool looking, in any case.
I’ve said this before, but that basin is so huge, and so round… if that side of the moon faced Earth, I wonder if our ancestors would have presumed the moon to be an ‘eye of god’ or something.

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:24:01 +0000

Phil, check out what BLASTR has: “Watch 1st video ever of the far side of the moon”

owie, owie, owie….

J/P=?

By: Chris A.

Chris A. — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:12:29 +0000

@Harold (#7):

Not only did JAXA’s Kaguya get video of the far side of the moon, but it’s all in HD. Click my name for the link.

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:30:56 +0000

Meatwad you up next with your knock knock
Meatwad make the money, see
Meatwad get the honeys, G
Drivin in my car, livin’ like a star
Ice on my fingers and my toes and I’m a Taurus

By: ASFalcon13

ASFalcon13 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:11:33 +0000

@Harold

You’re correct. The original press release was titled “NASA Mission Returns First Video From Moon’s Far Side”. Now, what was meant was that this is the first video returned by the GRAIL mission, but this ambiguous wording, along with the common error of referring to the far side of the Moon as the “dark side”, has resulted in a lot of headlines in the vein of “OMG First Video of the Dark Side of the Moon EVAR!!!!1!!!11one!!1!”.

By: Digital Atheist

Digital Atheist — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:43:57 +0000

@Larian

I have that EXACT. SAME. PHOTO. embroidered on a t-shirt! :-O

By: Mark Cope

Mark Cope — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:51:34 +0000

Ah, the Pink Floyd references are cool. The Probes would have been fine named “Pink” and “Floyd”, at the least it would have made the Space Cases sit up and take notice also.

By: Tara Li

Tara Li — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:50:51 +0000

@Harold – I was wondering that myself? They can’t use LRO pictures and make a nice video of the *ENTIRE* Moon? You know – that would be kinda neat! At a guess though, frames don’t over-lap enough to make smooth video.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:22:35 +0000

@Larian:
The lunatic is on the web…

By: Len Bonacci

Len Bonacci — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:48:08 +0000

…Look at all those black monoliths…

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:46:00 +0000

I had this comment nearly done, and then accidentally closed the tab.

Wednesday night and Thursday morning this was being reported (on ABC and CNN, respectively) as the “first-ever video from the dark side of the Moon!” Ignoring the “dark side” idiocy, is this actually the first VIDEO from the far side? We’ve had images since 1959, have we never had video before? Is this even really video and not an animation based on interpolated still images?

Here’s the first line of an article that appeared yesterday: “A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side — a view people on Earth never see.” The statement here is that this is the first video for THIS spacecraft.

And here’s the headline that was slapped on the article: “NASA takes first ever video of dark side of the moon”.

Grrrr…

By: Revyloution

Revyloution — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:39:10 +0000

I’ve been wondering about the Ebb and Flow pictures. If you took two shots from the opposite sides of the moon and made them into a red/blue anaglyph 3d image, would the perspective make the moon look like a tiny marble, or something immensely huge about to smash into your face?

By: Dragonchild

Dragonchild — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:19:47 +0000

The Moon and Mercury are so gray my eyes start playing tricks on me in the attempt to see color.

By: Larian LeQuella

Larian LeQuella — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:16:15 +0000

@Alfaniner, I have a good picture of the Dark Side of the Moon: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31ESVCFE0SL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

(Probably not what you meant. )

By: alfaniner

alfaniner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:12:40 +0000

Whenever I see an article like this, I expect it to have a title like “Pictures of the Dark Side of the Moon.”

Except here.

By: Christa

Christa — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:09:55 +0000

What, no alien space base??? I’m disappointed. Probably a government coverup.

But seriously, this is really fantastic!!!!

By: Scott P.

Scott P. — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:02:37 +0000

Have they spotted the swastika-shaped moonbase yet?