(urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Fri Jul 2 11:53:19 PDT 2010


Correct. I didn't know there multiple visors though.

He'd still have to be facing the sun to give him a reason to have the 
visor full down.

Now here might be an excuse to make up such a scene---if the figure is 
facing the Sun for symbolic reasons.

adam at io.com wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:00:11 +0100, António Pedro Marques
> <entonio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> The reflection on the visor, in that picture, looks like it's something 
>> relfected on a gilded surface. The black part could be interpreted as 
>> shadow. In fact, if I didn't know better, I might also guess the visor's 
>> surface was golden.
>>     
>
> Well, er....
>
> http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-LEVA.html
>
> "The inner surface of the polysulfone sun visor has a gold coating which
> provides protection against light and reduces heat gain within the helmet."
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