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by **Tomo** » Jan 20th, '12, 11:05

I was classifying surface features on the Moon last night as part of the Zooniverse Project when I spotted this little chap looking back at me. What better way to demonstrate the concept of pareidolia (seeing faces and other significant objects in random patterns). Click to see a larger version.

by **Stephen Ward** » Jan 20th, '12, 11:09

interesting!

by **MiKo** » Jan 20th, '12, 11:44

What is also fascinating is that, as far as I understand, that's a crater, while it looks like a relief...

by **Tomo** » Jan 20th, '12, 11:55

Yes indeed. It's a crater with the light coming from just north of west. The light ejecta shows that it's fairly new.

I was also classifying star data with the Planethunter project last night and seem to have co-discovered an eclipsing binary pair called APH51057428. The two stars spin around each other with a period of 3.016 days.

by **Mr_Grue** » Jan 20th, '12, 13:10

That crater face is very "Mars sphynx".

by **Tomo** » Jan 20th, '12, 15:15

This one? It's very similar, isn't it, except the Mars one is a rock.

by **Mandrake** » Jan 20th, '12, 17:40

Super photos. Are there any photos showing the sites of the Apollo Moon landings? The notion that they were all filmed either in the Nevada desert or on a secret CIA film set in Los Angeles is still put forward regularly, a few site photos (which I know can be faked but what the heck!) might be a way to silence a few of the louder proponents of the 'we never actually went there' camp.

by **Tomo** » Jan 20th, '12, 17:47

Mandrake wrote:Super photos. Are there any photos showing the sites of the Apollo Moon landings? The notion that they were all filmed either in the Nevada desert or on a secret CIA film set in Los Angeles is still put forward regularly, a few site photos (which I know can be faked but what the heck!) might be a way to silence a few of the louder proponents of the 'we never actually went there' camp.

Yes, if you find any space hardware there's a category for tagging it. I've not found any yet, but then again, there are literally millions of photos to plough through and the Moon's a very big place!