Lunar Spacecraft Images, A place for moon panoramas, mosaics etc. |
Lunar Spacecraft Images, A place for moon panoramas, mosaics etc. |
Jun 5 2005, 01:27 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10226 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
As promised in another thread... I thought all the images from Surveyor, Apollo etc. needed another place to go than the Mars Forum.
I will start the thing off with a link, not an image. I occasionally have images in Chuck Wood's Lunar Picture of the Day (LPOD) website, www.lpod.org. This URL: http://www.lpod.org/LPOD-2005-05-25.htm is my latest, a Clementine LWIR mosaic. The text accompanying the image explains how I made it. LWIR images from the PDS look useless but they can be made into very nice image strips. In most areas of the Moon they are the highest resolution images available, since the HIRES camera only functioned well over near-polar latitudes. So image junkies who want to see new scenery emerge from their computers can go wild! Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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May 19 2006, 03:00 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 172 Joined: 17-March 06 Member No.: 709 |
Great work on the LO3 image! There is another source of digitally scanned Lunar Orbiter photographs located here. http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/Luna...statusmaps.html As you will notice, there is a clickable map of the Near Side and one for the Far Side of the Moon at that site. Is it possible to produce a stitched mosaic of part of the Far Side utilizing some of the Lunar Orbiter frames listed on that map? My favorite sectors would be Mare Orientale, the area around the Korolev basin, as well as the area near the Apollo basin. In addition, back at the original site, listed earlier at http://cps.earth.northwestern.edu/LO/index.html it would be interesting to see a stitched mosaic of the high resolution frames, from Lunar Orbiter 3, of one of the candidate Apollo landing sites. The Lunar Orbiters produced such magnificent photographs, but, I believe, have not been appreciated recently because, for so long, they were not available in a digital format. Now that we are headed back to the Moon, perhaps they will be utilized once again to prepare for future landings, even in the age of the LRO. Another Phil |
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