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Phil Stooke
post Aug 22 2009, 02:16 AM
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And now a stealth LROC release... if I can call it that. This page for the MiniSAR instrument has an LROC image of Erlanger, the crater used for the bistatic radar experiment yesterday. - and the MiniSAR mosaic which is also the new LPOD.

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post Aug 22 2009, 05:24 AM
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There have been some wonderful images released to date. The ones I'm really looking forward to though will be those that cover the other four sites chosen along with the site that became Tranquility Base as the possible location of the first Apollo landing.
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post Aug 22 2009, 11:40 AM
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Re: Necho

Wow...wow -- at highest zoom level on the crack(?) regions one gets the impression of looking at crevases on an ice-sheet.

Coincidentally, had been looking up Necho in relation to its ray systems yesterday (where it meets another ray system from Giordano Bruno to its north-west), so came across some other info and images (no comparison to LROC's, obviously).

LPI image.

Apollo 10 oblique view image.

Interesting 1979 paper on Necho by Gifford, Maxwell and El-Baz.

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post Aug 22 2009, 03:44 PM
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TY for great Necho links (I've got iterested in today), John!
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post Aug 23 2009, 03:06 PM
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http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/M10463421LE

This was released just prior to the Necho one and on the same day. As can be seen it has really nice resolution/contrast tracks visible at the Apollo 14 site. Of course, these were also imaged on a prior pass and discussed, but they still are impressive. The various images I have seen to show these tracks do not do them justice so I magnified them by 2X and used the Geomatica Freeview palette adjustments to improve the contrast.

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Phil Stooke
post Aug 24 2009, 10:06 PM
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That 'stealth release' of a few posts back is now on the main LROC site:

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse

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post Aug 25 2009, 06:30 PM
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Thank you James the image is fantastic and so detailed.
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post Aug 26 2009, 08:51 AM
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http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/news/?archives/97...eo-Results.html

NEW image!
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post Aug 26 2009, 09:08 AM
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QUOTE (Zvezdichko @ Aug 26 2009, 09:51 AM) *
NEW image!


To give people just a LITTLE bit more information - this is the first LROC DEM from near the A16 landing site.
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post Aug 26 2009, 10:58 AM
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It isn´t new this image was taken 12 july 2009 combined with the image is made from apollo 16 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/
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post Aug 26 2009, 11:22 AM
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QUOTE (2amazing @ Aug 26 2009, 11:58 AM) *
It isn´t new this image


Yes it is - it's made from two LROC NA images, M102064759 and M102057602
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post Aug 26 2009, 12:15 PM
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Whatever - sorry, I had to be more specific. This DEM image looks much better than Chandrayaan's DEM images.
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post Aug 26 2009, 09:27 PM
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A little curiosity from someone who doesn't have the tools to be able to plot LRO's orbit, etc...

All of the images I've seen seem to be taken under mid- to late-afternoon sun angles. All of the images I've seen at low sun angles from other probes (especially LO) were, if memory serves, taken under early- to late-morning sun angles. Is this being done purposely by LRO to vary the lighting angle from other resources? (If so, it makes it that much harder to do photo comparison for detection of new craters.)

Also, why the heck have we yet to see the Apollo 12 landing site, when we've seen multiple takes on a couple of the other Apollo sites? Is it possible that A12 visited a *different* Surveyor than the one advertised...? wink.gif

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post Aug 26 2009, 09:57 PM
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QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 26 2009, 04:27 PM) *
Also, why the heck have we yet to see the Apollo 12 landing site, when we've seen multiple takes on a couple of the other Apollo sites? Is it possible that A12 visited a *different* Surveyor than the one advertised...? wink.gif


Or maybe.... the mission was faked unsure.gif
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post Aug 26 2009, 10:02 PM
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I would never, ever seriously suggest such a thing. But for the only mission where the TV camera wasn't able to transmit any panoramic images from the surface... to keep the idiots and such at bay, they really need to get this image soon.

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