Monday, August 1, 2011

On the moon, found traces of an unknown spacecraft crash!

The pictures of the lunar surface sent by the spacecraft Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on the reverse side of the moon, astronomers spotted an unusual formation. Scientists confused strange ejection of matter, whose form resembles a butterfly. According to experts, such asymmetric traces remain after the surface at a very acute angle falls any body.
What was it - the fall of a meteorite or a recent collision with man-made object - scientists still wonder. However, the second version of their bows following.
The coordinates are found of Education 119.149 ° east longitude and 3.020 ° north latitude. But scientists know about the coordinates of the moon falling on the American satellite Lunar Orbiter 2, and they are up to a degree anomalies coincide with the coordinates: 119.1 ° East and 3.0 ° north latitude.

Lunar Orbiter 2, one of five unmanned vehicles sent to the second lunar program Lunar Orbiter, was launched on 6 November 1966. The task of the ships was mapping the lunar surface to select sites for future landing of American astronauts.After the mission commanders decided to destroy the probe Lunar Orbiter 2, forcing him to collapse on the side of the moon. In an era of intensive exploration of the moon, scientists often did that with unnecessary devices, hand-made to provoke moonquakes. During his mission, Lunar Orbiter 2 gave the main thing - sent to Earth splendid panorama of the crater Copernicus, which with a light hand journalists have called a snapshot century.
Lunar Orbiter 2 had fallen to the Moon October 11, 1967. Scientists only know about the coordinates of its fall, because the collision occurred on the side of the moon, out of direct radio visibility from Earth. Therefore, the proximity of the coordinates of two points could be just coincidence.
"Dint seem too large (approximately 85 meters in diameter) to be the result of the fall of a ship the size of a few meters. However, the angle of incidence of the sun's rays, just 12 degrees hard to see the edge of the crater and determine its true diameter, "- said astronomer James Ashley (James Ashley) at the University of Arizona (Arizona State University). "The fact that we're not sure what it was caused by this release. We again sfotografiruem a place under the high beams of the sun to see the crater, "- he added, according to infox.ru.

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