by Mike Bara

This area, roughly the size of the Los Angeles basin, displays a highly anomalous rectilinear pattern across the Lunar landscape. The arrangement is reminiscent of a ruined city, and close-up views reveal a variety of unexplainable features. Among them are the "paperclip", the "crystal palace" and what Hoagland calls "Arcology Row", the deep carved linear pattern across the mountains in the foreground.

The "paperclip" appears to be mounted on a shaft or pole and may be some sort of antenna assembly. Clearly, this cannot be a natural object if current Lunar geologic theories are correct. Given the scale of frame 4822, this object is immense, literally a sky scraper among the ruins.

The "crystal palace" is an enormous (on the order of several miles), glass like, highly reflective structure hanging over a valley in the "LA" mountain chain. It's internal configuration evokes a multi-paned, layered glass like composition. Hoagland has compared this to the shattered remnants of an "arcology", a formerly contained enclosure similar to the recent earth bound "Biosphere" experiments.

Another completely bizzare feature in this frame is this "carved out" square.

It sits just at the base of the arcology mountain chain and clearly shows signs of having been subjected to modification.