UNMASKING NASA

EXAMPLES OF NASA's FAKING AND EDITING APOLLO 11 PHOTOGRAPHS

This is official NASA picture #AS11-40-5863-69

One of thousands taken during the first official manned lunar landing mission, known as Apollo 11.

It's also edited - as all lunar photographs have been - to the point where very little that you can see, is 'real'.

And I'll prove this statement.

But first I'll demonstrate something interesting that's visible in this photograph, which NASA undoubtedly hoped you would never look closely at.

Note that faint 'dot' to the left of the Lander. It doesn't seem to be connected in any way to the Lander itself..

And if we simply increase the light, we get this strange circular lighting effect.

But it's not lens flare, because the 'light' is going BEHIND the Lander and disappearing.

If we unmask - we get this. Suddenly part of NASA's multiple layer and editing becomes visible - but we're focused specifically on that dot of light - or what seems to be two dots of light.

It's a light source that's clearly not the Sun, which is to the RIGHT of the Lander.

And again, that light effect is clearly going BEHIND the Lander.

To test the reality of what is visible, we turn the section of the photograph to negative..

The editing becomes blatantly visible within the photograph.

But we see that the dots are a light source either on the landscape itself, or being used by NASA in photographic editing.

Note that the light makes a complete circle onto and over the ground and the Lander leg, but NOT on any top section of the Lander.

And turning the entire photo to 'negative' shows that the center of the dim light source, is real, unconnected to the Lander, and is not a photographic effect from glare.

Again, note how the circles disappear BEHIND the Lander.

 

You can also see in the above photograph, that you're getting a darkened view of the actual lunar surface as it is - (given that NASA routinely use overlaid negatives to blur and flatten the real landscape) - but we'll come back to that aspect.

Now let's look at the bottom left of the photograph - at the 'shadow' of the Lander.

With just a minor increase in brightness, the editing becomes visible again. Notice how NASA simply 'cut out' whatever was in the shadow.

Presumably it was too much effort to hide - or they assumed no one would experiment with different ways of looking at at what appeared to be simply 'black shadow'.

NASA throughout all of its lunar pictures, has an ongoing series of photographic effects it has to maintain.

For instance, one of the effects - is that it needs to make sure that all obvious 'shadows' of its vehicles and personnel, in photographs, lie flat and show nothing to alter the official view of a flat, barren rocklike landscape.

This requires work and extra editing specifically at those points where unavoidable 'shadows' layer over surface.

Take this section shown within the frame. I've already demonstrated that a chunk of the 'shadow' below it has simply been cut out.

Now because NASA are using multiple exposures and at least one 'negative' - in order to flatten and blur details and colors - note the strange 'glowing' and 'ghosting' effect which appears, when we first go in close, then unmask the area where different types of their standard photo-editing are co-existing.

And the real lunar landscape becomes dimly visible when we turn the unmasked section into 'negative' (ie: the 'real way round') - although it's still partly obscured by the overlaid false negative and retouched shadow. The clearly different layers of the photographs false textures are visible. Note the color of NASA's fake 'shadow' (now in negative) compared to other supposedly 'negative' parts of the picture.

 

Because there's a chunk of fake 'bright' texture at bottom of frame - which NASA then turns into a negative (and thus a fake 'shadow') its difficult to adjust the upper part of the photograph to show the real lunar landscape. But here are a few variations to show the truth of what I'm saying.

Here's a simple but fairly clear example of the subtle work that NASA perform on images..

This may be an 'official' example of an amalgam of a number of images - but it also demonstrates how 'seeing is not believing'..

The joins become clearly visible when the photograph is turned to 'negative' - as each is a different texture, and we can see the textures to left and right, are also different.

The same photographic 'join' and different textures, done slightly differently, are visible to the right of the Lander as well..

And in negative form, the join is glaringly obvious.

So much for Apollo 11.

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