NASA/JPL Moon and Mars Photos: An Unappreciated Resource in the Battle for Disclosure

For almost as long as human beings have been sending artificial satellites into space, we have been sending up artificial satellites which carry cameras. These invaluable tools now routinely capture the formation of galaxies as well as the surfaces of neighboring and distant planets, moons, and asteroids. We both learn from such photographs and appreciate them for their wonder and beauty. But among the countless images taken from our spacecraft over the past decades, there continue to be a percentage which NASA/JPL prefer that we not see, and that if we do see, not dwell upon. These are the images which strongly indicate the presence of structures of varying sorts on the surface of the Moon and on the surface of Mars, among other planetary bodies. These, in the form of buildings, towers, transit-ways, and artifacts. Not surprisingly, such allegations are generally met with the same disdain we apply to…