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 Nov 13 2008, 09:13 PM
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Solar System Cartographer  Group: Members Posts: 10145 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227  |
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke 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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Nov 13 2008, 10:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1580 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Wow, nice! Some more here, although that seems to be the one released image...
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/featur...lery-index.html |
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Nov 13 2008, 10:08 PM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Man, what a day... the first portraits of planets beyond our own solar system, and a beautiful new portrait of our own planet too... Just wonderful...
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Nov 13 2008, 10:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1580 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Ahh. Saw K. Cowing on there, and he mentioned more info here:
http://www.moonviews.com |
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Nov 14 2008, 08:19 PM
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There's a good overview of the background of this interesting archive recovery project at CollectSPACE.
As a historian, I appreciate the comment, "LOIRP's restoration of the Lunar Orbiter images to high resolution will provide the scientific community with a baseline to measure and understand changes that have occurred on the moon since the 1960s." Steve M Edit - Correct URL This post has been edited by SteveM: Nov 14 2008, 08:22 PM |
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Nov 14 2008, 09:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 267 Joined: 5-February 06 Member No.: 675 |
It turns out that there are two separate ways to get at the archival Lunar Orbiter data. Since around 2000 the USGS has been developing procedures to digitize the data from high resolution scans of the original archival film strips derived from the magnetic tapes. They have added a careful image matching procedure to register overlapping parts of adjacent film strips and have also corrected some of the cosmetic defects found in the originally released images. For a discussion and refs to a series of papers at the LPSI conferences from 2001 to 2007 see this overview from the USGS.
Isn't archival redundancy wonderful. (or is it that NASA doesn't know what the USGS is doing)  Steve M |
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Nov 14 2008, 09:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 10 |
Yikes - isn't that something? Yup, but wasn't the rest of that image also processed? Don |
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Nov 16 2008, 01:25 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
That's a great Earthrise shot and very nicely restored!
Just for fun, here's a quickish colorization : http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/14/143...r_Earthrise.jpg -------------------- |
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Nov 22 2008, 11:26 AM
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I think that this is a true treasure.
-------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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Nov 22 2008, 12:43 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 568 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Silesia Member No.: 299 |
I was sure that Lunar Orbiter's original tapes missing forever. What a wonderful view, the several palettes filled by tapes.
http://www.moonviews.com/archives/2008/11/...arage.html#more -------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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Jan 7 2009, 12:45 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 169 Joined: 17-March 06 Member No.: 709 |
A bit more background story on the saga of the Lunar Orbiter data tapes.
Here is a recent article from the Post-Standard, the newspaper in Syracuse, NY, relating the involvement of a member of UMSF (yours truly). I am honored to have been a part of the multi-year effort to save the Lunar Orbiter data tapes. The image in the background is a colorized version of the Lunar Orbiter Earth-Set image, of August 23, 1966. This colorized version was created by Gordan Ukargovic (ugordan) of UMSF. http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/200..._effort_to.html Another Phil |
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Jan 8 2009, 04:14 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 378 Joined: 21-April 05 From: Portugal Member No.: 347 |
Some interesting handmade image mosaics from Surveyor 7 that I think haven't seen before.
The link is http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar...or7_images.html -------------------- _______________________
www.astrosurf.com/nunes |
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Jan 8 2009, 04:28 PM
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 Newbie Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 9-September 05 From: Vancouver, BC, Canada Member No.: 489 |
Pretty nice! It's like a big puzzle!
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Feb 20 2009, 09:46 AM
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Guests |
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Mar 22 2009, 03:58 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
ZOMG!!!
Copernicus QUOTE A larger, raw version (1.8 gb in size) will be online at NASA's Lunar Science Institute in the next day or so. QUOTE The LOIRP currently estimates that the resolution of this image is less than 1 meter/pixel. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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