by Mark Keenan, Global Research:
NASA claims that between 1969 and 1972 twelve men walked on the Moon. They supposedly travelled approximately a quarter of a million miles from Earth, landed on the lunar surface, walked and drove across it, and launched themselves back into lunar orbit and returned safely to Earth.
The most extraordinary visual evidence supporting that claim is the film and television footage itself. We see astronauts bouncing across the lunar surface. We see dust thrown into the air. We see the Lunar Roving Vehicle racing across the landscape.
But there is a remarkably simple question that can be asked of that footage:
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Does the Apollo footage actually behave as footage recorded on the Moon should behave?
According to contempory physics and the theory of gravity the Moon’s gravity is puportedly approximately one-sixth that of Earth’s. That means objects falling or being thrown into the air should follow trajectories that are measurably different from those produced under terrestrial gravity.
If the Apollo footage really records men working on the lunar surface, then the movement of astronauts, falling objects and particles of dust should contain the physical signature of lunar gravity.
And that signature should be measurable.
I have examined the Apollo evidence for several years, including in my book Fake Moon Landings and the Lies of NASA. My conclusion is that NASA has not provided convincing evidence that men landed on the Moon during the Apollo programme.
The footage therefore presents an extraordinary opportunity. Rather than arguing endlessly about whether the astronauts “look” as though they are on the Moon, why not measure what the footage actually shows?
That is where the Apollo gravity question becomes particularly interesting.
In my previous article, If NASA Went to the Moon Six Times. Why Is Going Back So Difficult, I examined the extraordinary gap between NASA’s claimed six successful Apollo lunar landings and the difficulty NASA now faces in returning humans to the lunar surface. I also discussed the disappearance of the original Apollo 11 slow-scan television recordings. This article focuses on one much narrower question: what does the surviving Apollo footage actually tell us about the way objects fall and move?
The Strange Appearance of the Apollo Astronauts
Anyone who has watched Apollo footage will recognise its peculiar appearance. The astronauts seem to bounce and move in a conspicuously slowed manner. They appear almost as if they are walking underwater. One researcher puts it more bluntly:
“The Apollo ‘astronauts’ appear to move as if underwater, walking along the sea floor.”
The argument made by some Apollo sceptics is that terrestrial footage played back more slowly could create much of this appearance. Physics is harder to fool.
If the astronauts really were on the Moon, objects thrown into the air, falling objects and particles of dust should behave according to the purported gravitational effects that conventional physics attributes to the Moon.
That gives us something measurable.
Follow the Dust
According to contemporary science a falling or thrown object follows a trajectory determined by gravity. The Apollo footage therefore potentially provides something much more valuable than visual impressions. It provides data. If the footage is genuine, researchers should be able to take an object whose dimensions are known, track its movement frame by frame, establish the elapsed time, and calculate its acceleration.
If the result corresponds to the expected lunar conditions, that would seemingly support NASA’s account. If the result corresponds to Earth gravity, that would be a very different matter.
And this is not merely a hypothetical exercise. In 2012, Hsiang-Wen Hsu and Mihály Horányi published a paper in the American Journal of Physics examining dust kicked up by the Lunar Roving Vehicle during Apollo 16. They treated the dust as ballistic particles and used the Apollo video footage to estimate the gravitational acceleration at the lunar surface. Their calculated values were approximately 1.48 and 1.47 metres per second squared—reasonably close to the expected lunar value of approximately 1.62 m/s²[1].
