jade_murray•1mo agoProlific Poster

My brother said something about the moon landing that got me thinking

We were at a family cookout in Toledo last weekend and he mentioned how the shadows in the photos don't match up. I always just brushed that stuff off, but he showed me a side-by-side picture on his phone from a site called ApolloArchive. It looked weird, I can't lie. Has anyone else looked into that specific point and found a solid answer for it?

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shah.xena1mo agoMost Upvoted

That ApolloArchive site is a goldmine for raw mission photos. The shadow thing gets explained by the moon's rough terrain and non-parallel sunlight.

tessaw961mo ago

Okay the "non-parallel sunlight" bit from @shah.xena is actually a really good point I hadn't considered. I used to get hung up on shadow angles in those photos too. But the moon's surface is all bumps and hills, not flat, so shadows won't line up neatly like on a floor. Plus the sun is so far away its light isn't perfectly parallel like a spotlight. That archive site showing the raw, unedited scans really helps clear it up. It makes way more sense now.

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the_riley7d ago

The raw archive scans helped me a lot too, just seeing the actual frames in sequence instead of cherry-picked comparisons. I ended up bookmarking a few of those mission pages for whenever someone brings up the shadow thing.

patel.eric1mo ago

Still seems like a lot of effort to debunk old photos. If it was fake, they would have made the shadows line up perfectly anyway.