Quote Originally Posted by Marvin View Post
I am not sure this is actually an object in the photo:




We are looking at frame AS17-147-22470.

Just to add, according to the Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Journal (https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.fam-mtn.html and https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/images17.html#MagA), the photo is a Pre-EVA window pan taken by Jack Schmitt. This opens the possibility that we are seeing a reflection on the window from the inside of the LM (which would explain why the "object" appears to be "dim).

The colors filling the squares around the three lights are digital noise in the Jpeg... the squares seen in the enhanced photo are themselves Jpeg artifacts (which are not in the original photo, which was shot with film [not a digital photo]).


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