Awesome moonscape

On Dec 26, 1:53 pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
wrote:
BTW, our moon's albedo on average of 0.11 is nearly as physically dark
as an open pit coal mine.

So what? The albedo of a green golf course is 0.13. The albedo of a
conifer forest is only about 0.083.

You need to get out more. Go to a basalt flow on Earth - there are
plenty. Or get outside and look up at the full moon some night. You're
hanging your hat on the most feeblest of all threads.

Speaking of coal mines, compare these photos: http://www.geokem.com/images/scans/I..._coal_mine.jpg http://www.geokem.com/images/scans/N...-Geologist.jpg

with this one: http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Project...SolarSystem/Jp...

Those are certainly a couple of terrific coal mine pictures, with the
floor or deck of that first one at roughly 0.1 or less, and the
overcast albedo worth of the second at 0.12 or slightly better, and of
the third one being of a certain guano island as having that nifty
array of xenon arc lamps that's illuminating their foreground as
though this local source of artificial illumination is situated
nearby, with those nearly soft white and either extremely eroded and/
or dusty hills in the background.

BTW; Can I use all three of those images in a court of law?

And so all of that is why the NASA/Apollo moon wasn't ever the least
bit dark or much less blue, and probably the same reason as to why
Venus was always so darn invisible. Now we all know the Jim Logajan
truth, and thanks ever so much.


So what did you think of the piloting of Neil Armstrong? (Trying to
make this topical! ;-))

That's easy: especially when there's no such fly-by-rocket lander to
start with.

- Brad Guth