WHAT DO EXPERT ASTRO/GEOLOGISTS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT "IT"?
AS15-P-9630 enhanced version
I am not a scientist, neither I have any specialization. I’m a curious, idealistic and sceptic person that believes in science as one of the best tools for mankind’s maturity and illumination. By so, if this analysis would ever be potentially serious and solid, science would have to had it’s opinion on the subject.
As
a very curious and enthusiastic person on UFO phenomena and potential
extraterrestrial life hypothesis I was attracted to this “alien mother
space ship” controversy as a fly is impelled to the light.
Ufology and the truth about known extraterrestrial life forms is an extreme polemical and controversial question, with highly potential probabilities of mistaken interpretations surrounded by a religious parallelism and self-intituled spokesmen as pseudo-scientists with extremely dogmatic assertions, commonly identified as charlatans. On other side, there are indeed reasons , at least potential analogue hypothesis by some factual statements that once were considered conspiracy , now reflex that a conspiracy could have it's truth - i give the example of Morris and the "inocent" tobacco. View HERE.
My strategy was not to mention any aditional information inherent to the controversy while I was searching for a expert interpretation. Clean photographs, not centered, not zomed, without noise, simply, the lunar surface and the clinic geologist's eye.
I've contacted several geological and astro-geological institutes and these photographs were the first ones that were shown and asked for geological opinion.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu
British Geological Survey and U.S Geological Survey contacted me and Mr. John B. Murray and Mrs. Deborah, both geological planetary experts, answered my questions. I can only thank them for their attention and support.
Slowly, I was giving more detailed and focused views of the "object", wondering if they could suggest anything that was scarse or not common in terms of geology.
"...The main process visible in the images specified is impact cratering, with some subsequent modification by downslope movement to form talus, and slope creep at a finer scale. However, I presume you are referring to the flat and swelling floors of a few of these craters. These phenomena are generally believed to be associated with elastic rebound of the crater interior during and soon after impact. For small craters there is usually a simple bowl shape for fresh impact craters, and for large craters (tens of kilometres) there is a central peak caused by rebound. Between these two extremes, however, flat floors or slightly swelling floors occur, the exact shape being dependent on size, and probably lithology and previous topography too. For example it is noticeable that the prominent wide swelling floor in the young crater to the top left in the first image is situated directly on the raised rim of a previous crater. Continuous "gardening" by much smaller impacts will gradually smooth out this characteristic profile, which will disappear in old craters..."
Still, I wasn't mentioning any additional information nor alluded to the controversy itself.
"...I had a couple other folks take a look at the images. The terrain in general is a typical, highly impacted lunar surface. The particular feature may have been altered by faulting, and the thin, bright strip between the two hills could be a landslide..."
After
the high-resolution version of 9625/9630 was geologically analysed, I
lifted the curtain of my questions. It was a surprise the new
information about the controversy and the analogy of a geological
phenomena to a mother alien spaceship.
"...Thanks for the information; I was not aware of these discussions. The narrow ridge you have highlighted looks similar to a single septum of a wrinkle ridge, a type of feature associated with horizontal compression..."
My Thanks and appreciation to British Geological Survey and U.S Geological Survey and specially to Mr. John B. Murray and Mrs. Deborah.
LANDSLIDE
A landslide is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes and shallow debris flows. Although gravity's action on an over-steepened slope is the primary reason for a landslide, there are other contributing factors affecting the original slope stability (continue reading... Wikipedia)
WRINKLE-RIDGE
A wrinkle-ridge is a type of feature commonly found on Lunar mares. These features are low, sinuous ridges formed on the maria surface that can extend for up to several hundred kilometers. The wrinkle-ridges are tectonic features created when the basaltic-lava first cooled and contracted. They frequently outline ring structures buried within the mare; follow circular patterns outlining the mare, or intersect protruding peaks. They are sometimes called veins due to their resemblance to the veins that protrude from beneath the skin.
Wrinkle-ridges are named with the Latin designation dorsum (plural dorsa). The standard IAU nomenclature uses the names of people to identify wrinkle-ridges on the Moon. Thus the Dorsa Burnet are named for Thomas Burnet, and the Dorsum Owen is named after George Owen.
Wrinkle-ridges can also be found on Mars, for example in Chryse Planitia, as well as on several of the asteroids that have been visited by spacecraft, as well as Mercury, and a couple of moons of Jupiter and Saturn. (read article... Here)
CREATION OF A CRATER
CONSTRUCTING...
