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Topic: Lunar surface photograph of Apollo 15 CSM?
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LM-12
Member Posts: 4232
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 11-09-2025 02:03 PM
  
The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal has post EVA-3 photo AS15-88-11954 taken shortly after 169:37:47 GET and a long comm break. David Scott took a left window panorama. Then Jim Irwin took a right window panorama that included frame 11954, the last photo of his pan.The Apollo Flight Journal has the Apollo 15 command module flying overhead at around the same time, with closest approach to the landing site at 169:40:38 GET. Might the bright object seen at top center in photo AS15-88-11954 be the command module Endeavour flying over the Apollo 15 landing site?  |
rasorenson
Member Posts: 132
From: Santa Clara, CA, USA
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 11-09-2025 05:25 PM
Someone has been doing some careful scanning! This is great! Thanks so much! A reminder there are many more surprises to come from Apollo. |
MartinAir
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Registered: Oct 2020
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posted 11-10-2025 02:40 AM
An artifact, like in this photo? |
LM-12
Member Posts: 4232
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 11-10-2025 12:37 PM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
the Apollo 15 command module flying overhead at around the same time
What would the altitude of the command module have been during the flyover? |
Dietrich
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Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 11-10-2025 03:15 PM
Judging from the above mentioned DAC film from the CSM flying over the landing site at the same time, obviously, the CSM should be pointed downwards to the moon's surface. However, the bright object in the sky of the surface photo looks rather like a CSM pointing upwards, without engine nozzle, but with a very large high-gain antenna. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 4232
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 11-10-2025 03:49 PM
I also think the CSM would have been pointing in a downward direction during the flyover. I just don't know what the altitude would have been.My first impression of the object was that, if it was the CSM, it was pointing downward with the small blue spot on top lighting a bit of the engine nozzle. If the object is just an artifact or flaw in the photo, it is quite a coincidence that a flaw that looks somewhat like the CSM would show up in that photo at about the same location as the real CSM would have been. |
space1
Member Posts: 968
From: Danville, Ohio
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 11-10-2025 07:16 PM
The two blue dots seen at the top perhaps are related to SIM bay experiments (very speculative of course). If you look at it long enough you can see anything you want! |
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