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Aug 22 2009, 02:16 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
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.
Phil http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Mini-RF/...edia/index.html -------------------- ... 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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Aug 22 2009, 05:24 AM
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#137
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Member Group: Members Posts: 212 Joined: 19-July 05 Member No.: 442 |
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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Aug 22 2009, 11:40 AM
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#138
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Member Group: Members Posts: 156 Joined: 22-May 09 From: Ireland Member No.: 4792 |
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. John |
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Aug 22 2009, 03:44 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 10-June 09 Member No.: 4816 |
TY for great Necho links (I've got iterested in today), John!
SB |
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Aug 23 2009, 03:06 PM
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#140
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 62 Joined: 30-July 09 Member No.: 4887 |
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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Aug 24 2009, 10:06 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10128 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
That 'stealth release' of a few posts back is now on the main LROC site:
http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse Phil -------------------- ... 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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Aug 25 2009, 06:30 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 57 Joined: 22-March 09 From: West Hartford, Connecicut Member No.: 4691 |
Thank you James the image is fantastic and so detailed.
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Aug 26 2009, 08:51 AM
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Aug 26 2009, 09:08 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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Aug 26 2009, 10:58 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 24-August 09 Member No.: 4911 |
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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Aug 26 2009, 11:22 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
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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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Aug 26 2009, 09:27 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
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...? -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Aug 26 2009, 09:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1414 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
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...? Or maybe.... the mission was faked [ducks and runs] -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Aug 26 2009, 10:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
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.
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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