Friday, October 30, 2026

Rolling Lunar Rocks

Some cool looking paths apparently carved by rolling rocks.

This is from LRO dataset M1415751069RC:





Sunday, October 25, 2026

Lunar Anomalies #18

Weird crater bottom.  LRO dataset M1424544254RC:


same, zoomed in a little more:


Here's a nice looking outcropping of some sort.  LRO dataset M1415751069LC:



Monday, October 19, 2026

Lunar Anomalies #17

LRO dataset M1369989563LC.  A pretty strange crater bottom shape:



Craters nearby have similar:


From LRO dataset M1351197461LC, large boulders and boulders rolling downhill!


some closeup details:




LRO dataset M1311260861LC.  An Octagon???



Another hexagon with some interesting looking dirt LRO dataset M1278345738LC:




Sunday, October 18, 2026

Looking For Lunar Anomalies, continued more

I haven't posted a 'Top 256' image in a while.  These are the 256 highest scoring anomalies for a particular section of an LRO dataset.  An LRO dataset is 5064 pixels wide and 52224 pixels long.  That a pretty big bite, so I divide this dataset up into eight sections, each of which are 5064 by 6528 pixels.  At 1m per pixel resolution, that's an area of about 33 square kilometers.

LRO dataset M1379380302LC section 'E' looks like this:


The Top 256 are 64 by 64 pixel image sections.  Here's a mosaic of the Top 256 (left to right, top to bottom):


Here are the Top 256 showing their location marked with red boxes (kinda hard to see, I know):


Here's a zoom-in where there's a concentration of red squares:





Thursday, October 15, 2026

Lunar Anomalies #16

From LRO M1524704530RC.  A complicated crater scored #1 with the autoencoder for the section that it's in.



Same dataset, here's a weird looking groove and crater (scored #4 for it's section).  This is right on the edge of the image, but since I see no other distortions I have to assume this is the actual shape.


LRO Dataset M1517686238LC.  I don't get this one at all:


Nice little hexagon in LRO dataset M1426310663LC:




Monday, August 10, 2026

Looking for Lunar Anomalies, continued again

This is an agreement map of 20 different models.  Any shade of orange indicates that all 20 models agreed that this was one of the top 256 anomalies in this region.  Grayscales indicate number of models that agreed on that particular location, brighter meaning more models in agreement.


And here's the average agreement map.  Bright areas indicate strong model agreement AND a high anomaly score:


LRO dataset M1493691723RC

Lunar Anomalies #15

A large (~300 meter diameter) hexagonal-shaped crater, with a weird looking center:


LRO dataset M1493691723RC