I wonder why the LRV looks so dark. In photos it always seemed a fairly light color, but maybe it’s so much less reflective than the Lunar regolith that it just appears very dark at that exposure?

What seems more likely to me is that the LRV itself is very hard to see, but that its shadow stands out against the lunar regolith. Thus, what we see at the place labelled “LRV” would actually be the LRV’s shadow.

. . . knowing the height of the astronaut in his suit and the frame rate of the camera, one can probably backtrack to the predicted gravitational acceleration of the moon by using the astronaut as a ruler for his own jump and the camera rate to time his fall. Can’t remember if Mythbusters tried to do that, but it seems like a trick they would use. Silly hoaxters.

No, that won’t work, because the film was slowed down to mimic one-sixth Earth gravity. If you speed up the videos, the astronauts’ movements look perfectly normal for having been filmed on Earth.

Oh, wait, no they don’t. My statement above is just more HB nonsense, but your argument won’t persuade a dyed-in-the-wool HB.

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Something I don’t understand about the picture. On the inset it shows the shadow on the left and the flag on the right, but in the main picture, it looks like the illumination is from the left. Shouldn’t the shadow be on the right?

Er, no.

Several features in the main picture indicate that illumination is from the right of shot. Look at the LM descent stage – the bright parts are all on the right, and the bulk of the shadow is to the left. Look at the craters – all of them have shadow to the right (the slope that will be in shadow when illumination is from the right) and brighter areas to the left (the slope that would be in sunlight when the sun is to the right).