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Lunar Atmosphere, Visible in Apollo Hasselblad images?
FordPrefect
post Jul 1 2008, 09:37 PM
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Hello all,

several months ago I came across those Apollo images showing the Earth setting behind the shadowed limb of the moon and spotted this faint glow above the limb. Can anyone verify if this is perhaps the thin lunar atmosphere that can be seen lit up by the earth shine in the otherwise pretty complete blackness of space? If this is unlikely, what else causes it?
I'm referring to the images of Magazine OO, Apollo 17, AS17-151-23174 to 23176, particularly image 23175. If you enhance the contrast on this, you can clearly spot a (red/orange) glow above the moon's limb. You can find the other images here: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/c...m/magazine/?151

Thank you for any feedback!
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- FordPrefect   Lunar Atmosphere   Jul 1 2008, 09:37 PM
- - ugordan   This is very unlikely anything other than an image...   Jul 1 2008, 10:46 PM
|- - FordPrefect   QUOTE (ugordan @ Jul 2 2008, 12:46 AM) Th...   Jul 1 2008, 11:24 PM
- - Harkeppler   Lunar atmosphere is very thin. I do not believe it...   Jul 1 2008, 11:00 PM
- - dvandorn   If there is something there, I would venture it wo...   Jul 2 2008, 04:24 AM

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