[meteorite-list] Kepler Crater As Seen By SMART-1

[Larry Lebofsky]

Hi:

Part (all) of the "distortion" could be due to parallax as the spacecraft is 
moving above the surface of the Moon (Moon not at an infinite distance and 
viewed from different perspective). 

How about something in the field of view of the camera? Not a UFO, but just 
the fact that the environment around a spacecraft is never really clean 
(firing attitude jets, etc.) The would at least explain the big fuzzy one (out 
of focus so very close).

Larry

Quoting Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net>:

> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 12:49:52 +1000, you wrote:
> 
> >There's also another much bigger but fainter one just below the centre of
> >the image. Maybe just a photographic or processing aberation?
> 
> I would think that this looks more like an artifact in the camera than in
> the
> processing.  You can see the artifacts and distortions better in this:
> http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/crater_bigger_faster.gif
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