Some of most agreed upon evidence by speculators stems from the photography taken by the Apollo Astronauts. The claims state that the camera technology available in the early 1960’s was too poor at capturing shadowing and lighting that the multiple light sources captured on the moon must have been impossible and only doable with the usage of the use of external lighting.
Believing that an entire camera set was brought to the moon to take pictures is quite ludicrous, leading to the only logical reasoning for theorists that all photos from the mission are fraud.
One of the more famously debated “faked” photographs depicts unparalleled shadows from the moon surface rocks and the lunar lander indicating that multiple light sources must have …show more content…
This again was a to spec model of the landing craft and all surrounding equipment and moon surfaces. The myth goes that a picture of Armstrong was taken with a no flash camera while he was in the shadow of the spacecraft. Controversy has been brought up regarding the picture because Armstrong is still easily seen with the presence of an unknown light source. Another representative light source must have been present to make him visible in photo. Once again, the Mythbusters debunking team’s replica allowed them to take an exact photo with exact cameras used by the Apollo 11 team. This photo, which was nearly identical to the original NASA released, was recreated with ease. Jamie Hyneman further explains that Armstrong was visible because of ambient light being reflected off of the Moon’s surface. The moon’s surface is unlike any found on earth and is made of regolith, or a layer of unconsolidated rocky material covering bedrock. We are able to see the moon at night when it reflects light given off by the sun due to the regolith’s albedo percentage of 7-10%; meaning anywhere from 7% to 10% of all light shown on the surface of the Moon is refracted back upwards rather than absorbed, as it would be on Earth. These recreations made with almost identical conditions clearly indicate no plausibility that there was a second light source present. It was proven
Believing that an entire camera set was brought to the moon to take pictures is quite ludicrous, leading to the only logical reasoning for theorists that all photos from the mission are fraud.
One of the more famously debated “faked” photographs depicts unparalleled shadows from the moon surface rocks and the lunar lander indicating that multiple light sources must have …show more content…
This again was a to spec model of the landing craft and all surrounding equipment and moon surfaces. The myth goes that a picture of Armstrong was taken with a no flash camera while he was in the shadow of the spacecraft. Controversy has been brought up regarding the picture because Armstrong is still easily seen with the presence of an unknown light source. Another representative light source must have been present to make him visible in photo. Once again, the Mythbusters debunking team’s replica allowed them to take an exact photo with exact cameras used by the Apollo 11 team. This photo, which was nearly identical to the original NASA released, was recreated with ease. Jamie Hyneman further explains that Armstrong was visible because of ambient light being reflected off of the Moon’s surface. The moon’s surface is unlike any found on earth and is made of regolith, or a layer of unconsolidated rocky material covering bedrock. We are able to see the moon at night when it reflects light given off by the sun due to the regolith’s albedo percentage of 7-10%; meaning anywhere from 7% to 10% of all light shown on the surface of the Moon is refracted back upwards rather than absorbed, as it would be on Earth. These recreations made with almost identical conditions clearly indicate no plausibility that there was a second light source present. It was proven