How to Find Things on the Moon

One of the important things to do when looking at these pictures is build what I call granular awareness.

You only do that by zooming in and out of the image.

You can see certain things.

We easily see these craters.

We see this kind of patchy work down here.

We see these big shadow blocks, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? But you have to be able to zoom in and start to find something in there.

And the act of going in and out and in and out builds kind of like a situational awareness.

So when you're totally zoomed in, you see things like this little detail right here or whatever this might be, this kind of like strand of something or slab of something or whatever this is.

It doesn't matter what it really is.

We don't have to kind of figure out what it is.

It just has a relationship to the rest of the object.

Above it, we have something that looks kind of like a half dome, kind of cat-eyed.

And then when we zoom out, we realize that this particular object that we were interested in, oh, look, it's kind of parked in here in a space around it.

Well, that's all like a depressed zone.

And this is, you know, where is this? This is like off in the corner

here.

Then I kind of came up with these terms because there's like no science out there that I can find.

Nobody does this.

The closest I can find would be geospatial image analysts that work for the military and the government.

Hats off to these folks.

I've seen some of their material, and they take this to the next level.

And they have to, because they're looking at things like tracking countries that shouldn't be moving nuclear material around.

These folks really know their stuff.

It kind of seems like what you're explaining here is basically the science of satellite photography, right?

Yeah, basically.