After some discussion we agreed to order The AS10-30-4414-17 series taken of this region. It was my decision to concentrate on two areas - the fore-highland terrain areas and, what I believed to be a bright crater area on the North shore area. Mike continued with the North shore search. Before discussion on my areas, some Dome location observations…

I can safely say that it is our shared belief that the Dome seen on AS10-30-4421 can be seen only at certain sun angles. In the series AS10-30-4421, the sun angle is high. However, the phase angle - the angle at the point of intersection formed by the vectors from the source (Sun) and the receptor (camera) - changed throughout the sequence.

I believe the phase/Sun angles must be synchronized in order to see the Domes in 4421. Much large-scale crystalline material has been discovered and was photographed by Lunar Orbiter and Apollo technologies. Much of it wasn't captured due to un-synchronized angles. Consider Apollo 16:

The 4421 Dome could be a "flash-unit". It is far brighter than any landform seen on any photo in the 4414-4420 series.

I accessed frame AS11-42-6223 that shows a higher view of the whole north shore area and sent the sectionals to Mike. There is a ray crater that is extremely bright in the general location of the dome that can be mistaken for it. This crater will be discussed. To play the Devil's advocate here however as I did, if one draws a line from a common landform or crater on the terrain of the West shore seen both on 10-4421 and 11-6223 up passing Picard to the right of the dome area on 4421 and to the bright crater area on 6223, both lines on these photos do seem to meet a point on the North shore near each other. I am not convinced however, that the bright crater and the dome are one and the same.

This "bright crater" area can be seen clearly on LO-IV-54-H3

Figure 1.

If one looks at the AS10 footprint maps [2] one can coordinate the angle of 4421 with the 4421 photo. If the map angle lines are correct (and the may not be, which I'm about to get into) the Dome location according to it’s Selenographic location should be to the left of Cleomedes F and Fa, two small Mare craters off the North shore. The bright crater is located here. However, the Dome is obviously seen as a much larger object that is transparent.

The three-mile high mountains on the North shore can be seen through the dome on 4421. The 11-6223 photo enlargements and the LO-IV-54-H photo show the bright crater has merely splashed near shore. So size is a critical factor here. If the Dome is a "flash-unit", it would also not be visible under all conditions as this "bright crater" seems to be. This small bright ray-crater is visible on almost any picture of Crisium taken from any distance - even trans-Earth Coast photographs.

Figure 2.

In looking at the AS10 maps there are discrepancies. The photo angles for the series AS10-4414-4417 contradict what is shown on the actual photos. Map angles drawn for this series show Picard along the left angle line border which is consistent for only one of the photographs - 4414. Picard changed position as the spacecraft orbited and by the time 4416 was taken, it was in the middle of the frame. If these discrepancies exist it is reasonable to deduce that perhaps the 4421 photomap angle may not be accurate.

I have not found the high albedo along with the transparency on any object in pictures mentioned except the dome on AS10-30-4421.

A combination of factors that include Mike's original enhancements of the Dome, the "bright crater" area, and the AS10 map angles here all kept part of my research focused on this area. I came across a frame in a NASA document that has not as yet been identified by number and mission even though I've gone through all the catalogs. Houston does not know yet either. It shows a possible confirming Dome shot. It is currently being investigated by this team.

Sectionals were made of the "bright crater" area on frame 11-6223 and sent to Mike. Included were sectionals on the fore highland areas of SW Crisium as well as Lick crater. No enhancements were really needed for what was discovered in the area left of the bright crater area. There is an astonishing, unmistakable and undeniable architecture or archeology that I have named "Malibu", for it reminds me of and clearly resembles California homes built into the sides of hills but on a much larger scale.

Figure 3. "Malibu". Yellow line indicates intersection of Mare plane and highlands.

There are angular supports conforming to the physical relief of the mountain slope. Within, are vertical trusses and horizontal beams between them. It is sunlit and like the "bright crater", faces south-southeast overlooking the Mare. After finding this remarkable object, I returned to the AS10-4414-17 series as well as the foreground shore areas of AS11-6223 to search for similar structures. I discovered many smaller, rectilinear, concentric complexes peppered throughout the inland edges of this Pre-Imbrian basin. On 11-6223 they are very clear and the orthogonal nature of them can be seen with a magnifying glass on sectionals. They have structural integrity and do not seem to fit within the traditional geology of mere "hummocky-treebarklike" patterns. I consulted geologic maps. [3] In the traditional stratigraphic model one does see relatively degraded areas with mass wasting that has removed material from and within higher areas that are now depressions. There is a coarse patchy appearance in the steeper slopes along with crater modification. The geometric complexes in these areas just do not seem to fit within this model. (Fig 4). They cover inland areas in the lower parts of frames 10-4414-17 and 11-6223 & seen more clearly on 6223.

Figure 4. AS11-42-6223.

Two important observations take them out of the traditional model. One is the fact that all of them, apart from the regular geometry, are located on surfaces out of the path of further deposition and wasting. The other is that the walls and height of these structures appear higher than the natural terrain. For example, many are seen along and near the rims of smaller 3-8 km craters and on plateaus and relatively level areas.

Straight walls, within walls at geometric angles conforming to the terrain do not just appear on levels higher than the highest point of crater rims as these seem to do! And there is no endogenic reason for their existence. If these were natural one would expect to see such structures on a scale of these things all around the craters where they appear and not such obvious locations and immense complex form as these have. These to me all suggest artificiality and not random manipulations of natural lunar geology. The central area of Lick crater also reveals some similar shapes. Other frames from different mission of this area are currently being examined. Stay tuned.

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