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 Sep 13 2011, 07:50 PM
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Does anyone know if the raw imagery for the newly obtained Apollo data is or will be available? I like to do my own processing to see what I can bring out. Thanks!
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Sep 13 2011, 08:39 PM
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 Administrator Group: Chairman Posts: 13229 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (jklier @ Sep 13 2011, 11:50 AM)  Does anyone know if the raw imagery for the newly obtained Apollo data is or will be available? As with all LRO data, I'm sure it'll be on the PDS soon enough. |
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Sep 13 2011, 08:58 PM
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 Bloggette par Excellence Group: Admin Posts: 3959 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter does PDS releases every 3 months, on the 15th, and each release covers data that is 3 to 6 months old.
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Sep 14 2011, 05:20 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 7-September 11 Member No.: 6150 |
Thank you for the replies. It appears the last updates were June 15th. Soooo...... I'll be hoping the latest Apollo data might make it in on this next update which would be tomorrow if I got that last date correct. However, not likely since it is only about a month old.
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Sep 14 2011, 05:27 PM
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Administrator Group: Chairman Posts: 13229 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
No - it'll be in the update after that.
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Sep 15 2011, 07:34 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 30-July 09 Member No.: 4887 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 14 2011, 06:27 PM) No - it'll be in the update after that. Looks like the data is in! http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/data/LRO-L-LROC-3....0/LROLRC_0007/ |
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Sep 15 2011, 07:41 PM
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Administrator Group: Chairman Posts: 13229 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
That's the normal Sept 2011 release that should include data from March/April/May/June
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Sep 19 2011, 02:42 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4508 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I've been waiting for this for a while:
Lunokhod 2's tracks at the place where it spent its second lunar night. The cross-shaped pattern of tracks is similar to tracks at the location of its first lunar night stop. I think it was using its magnetometer at the time, two perpendicular transects, centered on a small crater at both locations. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sep 20 2011, 09:33 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 249 Joined: 5-January 07 From: Manchester England Member No.: 1563 |
Loving it, wish I'd been around when these mission flew!
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Sep 21 2011, 03:42 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 485 Joined: 19-February 05 From: France, close to Paris (& 5mn drive from Meudon Observatory) Member No.: 172 |
QUOTE (marsbug @ Sep 20 2011, 11:33 PM) Loving it, wish I'd been around when these mission flew! Well... I was there (as a teenager then) and the French space agency (CNES) was very close to the Russian space agency at this time. Believe me : NO Lunokhod images and NO "live" news were given by the Soviets then, even to the French who had some experiments inside. The only imaging "glimpses" we had were during the Paris Air shows every 2 years : just 1 or 2 Lunokhod images (not even the full pans) were shown on a vertical poster, printed raw (really of a bad quality) and with a text in Russian... They just did not care about Western public interest. Their only focus was to show full size Salyut mock-ups with Soyuz capsules (the best part of their exhibit) and have cosmonauts give at conferences some "political" interviews (always about their quest for peace and their non-agression policy and friendhip between the states... Yawn !). At a later stage, we even saw the Buran on top of its carrier... But still NO more Lunokhod images were shown... The space enthusiasts like me were very frustrated regarding their unmanned spaceflight results. So, don't worry : you missed almost nothing... 
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Sep 21 2011, 05:56 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1146 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
there was some good coverage of the missions in a few magazines such as Spaceflight, Aviation Week or Flight International (usually reprinting info from Novosti or TASS) but nothing to see with the flood of info we have today.
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Sep 21 2011, 07:52 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2560 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Olivier, did you ever met with Albert Ducrocq? He was reporting Lunokhod's progress on Air & Cosmos, ok, no pictures, but I remember reading interesting infos.
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Sep 22 2011, 07:39 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 485 Joined: 19-February 05 From: France, close to Paris (& 5mn drive from Meudon Observatory) Member No.: 172 |
QUOTE (climber @ Sep 21 2011, 09:52 PM) Olivier, did you ever met with Albert Ducrocq? He was reporting Lunokhod's progress on Air & Cosmos, ok, no pictures, but I remember reading interesting infos. Oh, yes : a lot. But much more about Mars and each time when I was back to France from JPL (for VLs and MPF) |
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Sep 30 2011, 03:14 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4508 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
New lunar pits - well, a new discovery anyway, not reported elsewhere. Like several others they are in western Tranquillitatis.
Phil
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Sep 30 2011, 01:23 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 30-July 09 Member No.: 4887 |
QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Sep 30 2011, 04:14 AM) New lunar pits - well, a new discovery anyway, not reported elsewhere. Like several others they are in western Tranquillitatis. Phil, Is this your discovery? Did you read the paper “Lunar Caves In Mare Deposits Imaged By The LROC Narrow Angle Cameras” to be presented at the First International Planetary Cave Research Workshop? http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/caves2011/pdf/program.pdf They say they have documented >140 "negative relief" features. I have sent in an inquiry to Mark Robinson as to either the location of these or the general regions. They also include an image of the cave/pit H1 I found back in April. Although I got no attribution, perhaps they found it independently. James |
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