In actual fact, multiple light sources would cause each object to cast multiple shadows, as occurs with the players in a football or baseball match played at night. No explanation is given by Moon hoax proponents as to why NASA or the alleged hoax perpetrators would have made such a colossally stupid and glaring mistake. Intersecting shadow directions, it is argued, imply multiple light sources, which are impossible on the Moon and suggest studio lighting.
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Photo AS14-68-9487 (Apollo 14) used by Fox TV to create the image shown in Figure 5.6-1 by cropping and drastically darkening the sky and the shadows. Moon hoax proponents say that they should instead be parallel, because on the Moon there’s only one light source (the Sun), which is very far away and therefore casts parallel shadows according to the rules of optics.īart Sibrel, in the Fox TV show Did We Land on the Moon?, states that “Outside in sunlight, shadows always run parallel with one another, so the shadows will never intersect”.įigure 5.6-2.
THE DETAILS: If you trace the directions of shadows in many Apollo photographs, you’ll notice that they’re not parallel, as exemplified below. Also, the lunar terrain is anything but flat, so shadows follow its contours and therefore appear to bend when viewed from the ground.
The same effect can be seen easily on Earth, for example in railroad tracks: their spacing only appears to change with distance, but it’s actually fixed. IN A NUTSHELL: Because the shadows in the Apollo photographs actually are parallel when viewed from above, but perspective makes them appear to intersect when viewed from ground level.