Guest

Guest (and the so-called "alien spaceship" north-northeast of it)

Lat: 19.79°S, Long: 117.39°E, Diam: 19.79 km, Height: km

• Image - JohnMoore2 JohnMoore2
• In this interesting close-up photograph of the crater which is now officially known as Guest, there's another curiosity to investigate. It's the so-called "alien spaceship" north-northeast of Guest (and of its somewhat larger companion). That "alien spaceship" (which is nothing more than a ridge on the floor of a not-so-extraordinary looking crater) looks somewhat needle-shaped on low-resolution photographs. This odd needle-like appearance was the start of a hoopla on the internet and on YouTube, because some freak invented a story about an unknown Apollo mission ("Apollo 20 ") which landed not far away of that "alien spaceship". And to make things much more complicated, he came up with the "proof " of the discovery of the corpse of an alien girl inside that needle-shaped "spaceship". That girl seems to be known as the "Mona Lisa of the Moon" or something... Research: Danny Caes

Images

There are several orbital photographs of crater Guest in the LPI's online Apollo galleries (and also of the so-called "alien spaceship" NNE of it).
  Research: Danny Caes
 Apollo 15 Panoramic frames (from the ITEK-camera in the SIM bay of Apollo 15's CSM Endeavour)
  Frame AS15-P-9625 (note the needle-like appearance of the so-called "alien spaceship").
 Apollo 15 Metric frames (from the FAIRCHILD-camera in the SIM bay of Apollo 15's CSM Endeavour)
  Revolution 23:
  Frames AS15-M-764, 765 (frame 766 shows part of Guest at the left margin).
  Revolution 33:
  Frames AS15-M-1037, 1038, 1039, 1040
  Revolution 34:
  Frames AS15-M-1333, 1334, 1335, 1336, 1337, 1338
  Revolution 38:
  Frames AS15-M-1579, 1580, 1581, 1582, 1583
  Revolution 44:
  Frames AS15-M-1720, 1721, 1722, 1723, 1724
 
 

Maps

LAC zone (LAC 101)

Description

High-albedo crater west of Fermi, north of Iszak.
  Looks very bright on page 202 (LAC 101) of B.Bussey's and P.Spudis's Clementine Atlas of the Moon.
 
 

Description: Wikipedia

Additional Information

About the so-called "alien spaceship" immediately north-northeast of Guest and of its somewhat larger companion, see the Wikipedia-page Apollo 20 hoax.
  The LM of the not-existing "Apollo 20 " landed near the needle-shaped ridge in the unnamed crater immediately north-northeast of Guest and its larger companion. It is interesting to explore the true appearance of that "needle-shaped extraterrestrial spaceship" on the Hi-Res NAC frames in the online LROC Act-React Quick Map !
  It doesn't look that extraterrestrial !
  See:
 http://bit.ly/2v3vvR9
 
 

Nomenclature

John Edward Guest (1938-2012), English volcanologist and planetary scientist.
  Crater Guest was officially named by the IAU on 25 July 2017
 IAU official page
 
 

LPOD Articles

LROC Articles

Bibliography

About John Edward Guest:
 The Geological Society - Obituary John E. Guest.
 

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