Pyramids on the moon? What are they?

[StoneScratcher]

What are these two pyramid looking mounds on the moon?

PYRAMID MOON MOUNDS (http://forums.hannity.com/picture.php?albumid=1901&pictureid=28531) <---click

[CHUG]

Looks nothing like any pyramid I've ever seen.

[StoneScratcher]

EGYPT PYRAMIDS (http://www.spaceimagingme.com/content/Downloads/samples/pyramids.jpg)

PYRAMID MOON MOUNDS (http://forums.hannity.com/picture.php?albumid=1901&pictureid=28531)

HIGH ABOVE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/1000/1842/ISS003-ESC-5120.jpg)

[CHUG]

Nope, still can't see the similarities.

According to the scale in the photo, those pyramids are pimples on the arse of the moon approx 20ft across.

[Drawz]

Nope, still can't see the similarities.

I can, vaugely.

[StoneScratcher]

I finally found the original picture link that Lou posted, it is one you can enlarge, the same exact picture, I just added the words "PYRAMID" with arrows. Just find the same locations on this picture:

Apollo 17 Landing Site

http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/uploads/A17LEMa_1000.png (http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/uploads/A17LEMa_1000.png)

[Drawz]

What are these two pyramid looking mounds on the moon?

PYRAMID MOON MOUNDS (http://forums.hannity.com/picture.php?albumid=1901&pictureid=28531) <---click

What does the site you got the pic from have to say about them?

[Drawz]

I finally found the original picture link that Lou posted, it is one you can enlarge, the same exact picture, I just added the words "PYRAMID" with arrows. Just find the same locations on this picture:

Apollo 17 Landing Site

http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/uploads/A17LEMa_1000.png (http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/uploads/A17LEMa_1000.png)

Ah, ignore my previous post then. I thought you found the pics with text included.

[StoneScratcher]

What does the site you got the pic from have to say about them?

I don't know. I saw this on Lou's moon thread and I put it in Paint Shop Pro to look at it because they looked sort of like pyramids. So I thought I'd post the picture, and ask what others saw or thought.

I'm not sure where he's getting his pictures from, perhaps NASA.

[StoneScratcher]

Ah, ignore my previous post then. I thought you found the pics with text included.

LOL! Oh, now I know what you meant.

[CHUG]

I can, vaugely.

If you really squint.

[Samm]

I don't know. I saw this on Lou's moon thread and I put it in Paint Shop Pro to look at it because they looked sort of like pyramids. So I thought I'd post the picture, and ask what others saw or thought.

I'm not sure where he's getting his pictures from, perhaps NASA.

Any time you have a shadow that falls into a basically conical depression (like many craters) with low light angles it will form a triangular shape. A great many of the crater shadows in Lou's photo have a triangular shape; just some are more pointed than others. I can count more then a dozen without effort. That shape would vary somewhat between circular and triangular with the shape and depth of the depression. Now granted the shadow you pointed out does not appear in a crater, it quite clearly is in a depression.

You might notice that there are also numerous small triangular shadows caused from projecting features too. The shadow from any roughly symmetrical conical or hemispherical feature will create a tapered, triangular shadow. And without an atmosphere on the moon, the light is not diffused which causes the shadows to have very distinct edges as compared to here on Earth.

[Clintville]

Looks more like craters to me.

[StoneScratcher]

Any time you have a shadow that falls into a basically conical depression (like many craters) with low light angles it will form a triangular shape. A great many of the crater shadows in Lou's photo have a triangular shape; just some are more pointed than others. I can count more then a dozen without effort. That shape would vary somewhat between circular and triangular with the shape and depth of the depression. Now granted the shadow you pointed out does not appear in a crater, it quite clearly is in a depression.

You might notice that there are also numerous small triangular shadows caused from projecting features too. The shadow from any roughly symmetrical conical or hemispherical feature will create a tapered, triangular shadow. And without an atmosphere on the moon, the light is not diffused which causes the shadows to have very distinct edges as compared to here on Earth.

Aw. That's all it is? Darn. Thanks for the explanation, they do look like pyramids though, don't you agree?

[Samm]

Aw. That's all it is? Darn. Thanks for the explanation, they do look like pyramids though, don't you agree?

No... To me they look exactly like triangular shadows in depressions. Except of course, for the triangular shadows emanating from the small bumps.

[Claymore]

The Moon Gots Boobies!!!!!

[sgtmac_46]

What are these two pyramid looking mounds on the moon?

PYRAMID MOON MOUNDS (http://forums.hannity.com/picture.php?albumid=1901&pictureid=28531) <---click

They are indian burial mounds, but Wal-Mart is going to level them to build super centers. ;)