Mysterious markings that surely cant be naturally occuring..

Ok.....so what has made this marking in the shape of an X, It doesn't look natural to me. Anyone any ideas.X marks the spot...kmz (843 B)
I Have also found a secomd one.

Jul 20, 2016 14:40:42 GMT petemi2 said:

Ok.....so what has made this marking in the shape of an X, It doesn't look natural to me. Anyone any ideas.
I Have also found a secomd one.

Zoomed in & out, but can't find anything that resembles an "X" that you are referring too. 
Could be tiny craters.

You need to zoom in above and to the left of the marker and you will see it.

Jul 20, 2016 21:45:24 GMT petemi2 said:

You need to zoom in above and to the left of the marker and you will see it.

I still don't see what you are talking about. The closer you zoom in one starts to see pixels, pixels will
give an illusion of different shapes such as letters etc.

it is not the pixels ET, check my help file. (turn off after opening to see feature)
not sure but maybe something similar to those cross features can be seen on so many photos taken by apollo missions.

X on moon.kmz (720 B)

Please tell me you can see this one.....

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x4.kmz (727 B)

Jul 21, 2016 23:54:32 GMT petemi2 said:

Please tell me you can see this one.....

Yep! I see them.

...and how much more do you want?
look: these are pointing the same direction, very similar in size and occuring regularly.

not enough to believe me these are some image processing features?

sample grid group attached.

my advice: forget these and go ahead Pete!(:

Xs on the moon.kmz (2.98 KB)

syzygy.......so are you saying these are a product of the camera...?

Jul 22, 2016 13:00:06 GMT petemi2 said:

syzygy .......so are you saying these are a product of the camera...?

I believe they are what remains of registration marks, +'s on the film plane which allow mappers to line up adjacent photographs. They were "erased" imperfectly leaving a "ghost" image. These days that can all be done by the software in your camera phone, but at that time it was all cut and paste and blend.

The Data Camera used on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission and later Moon landings was a 500EL with additional modifications. A transparent glass Reseau plate, or register glass, engraved with grid markings was placed between the film magazine and the camera body, immediately in front of the film plane. The plate is engraved with crosses to form a grid and the intersections accurately calibrated to a tolerance of 0.002 mm. The crosses were recorded on every exposed film frame. From the markings, it is possible to calibrate distance and heights in photos taken either on the lunar surface or from space. Such markings were not new or unique to the space program. They were commonly used for large format scientific and aerial photography prior to the Moon landings, when the large size of the photographic negative could be distorted either during exposure or the printing process. Source