Page 128 - Lunacy and the Age of Deception

Look carefully at the image above. The angle of divergence of the shadows of these two toy
astronauts is quite acute. This is because the contour of the ground is similarly extreme. If you look
closely you will see that the shadows of the two astronauts are falling on opposite sides of a ridge.
This is an extreme case, and causes the shadows to depart greatly from one another even when the
Sun is the only source of light. There are very few images from the surface of the Moon that contain
such extremes. What I would emphasize is that shadows behave consistently. When the Sun is the
only source of light we can determine the proper angle of any shadow if we examine the context of
the image and the contour of the ground.

I want to focus in on one image at this time. It is the image at the head of this chapter. If you did not
notice, the shadow from the Lunar Module and the shadows from the rocks in the foreground, are
not parallel. They are not even close to parallel. They are falling in greatly divergent angles.
Following is a cropped image of the same photo, showing a closer view of this anomaly.

Note that the rocks and the Lunar Module are lying on the same plane. There is a ridge in the
background, but neither the Lunar Module, nor the rocks, are lying on the ridge. Consequently, their
shadows should be pointing very nearly in the same direction. This is not the case, as the following
image demonstrates.