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Lunar Spacecraft Images, A place for moon panoramas, mosaics etc.
djellison
post Jun 23 2005, 10:05 PM
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It shows the comparative 'resolving power' quite well though

ESA is quite shocking really - it's beginning to gte annoying.

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post Jun 23 2005, 10:22 PM
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Of course, the other-other possibility is that this is the ONLY picture that SMART-1 has taken lately. (yeah, right!!) tongue.gif


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Bob Shaw
post Jun 23 2005, 10:28 PM
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We saw the Huygens images (albeit with all sorts of caveats, but personally that's no grief!) fairly quickly as a result of ESA's liaisons with various universities and some creative accounting (be quiet, Doug!). I wonder whether there are any public resources out there which happen to have Mars Express and SMART-1 images casually available to the academic community, and which we might make some (reasonably informed, if not tenured) comments upon?

It's like pullin' teef, innit?


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post Jun 24 2005, 07:31 AM
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Well - the MEX data is slowly getting put in an online archive, but my GOD it's awkward to use.

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Phil Stooke
post Feb 10 2006, 09:41 PM
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Here's my latest image from the Jurassic period of lunar exploration.

Surveyor 6 - view to the northeast. It shows the landscape lit by a high sun after the 'hop' - and so we see two footpad imprints from the initial landing, plus the effects of rocket firing on the surface. The color chart on the omnidirectional antenna is splattered with dirt.

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post Feb 10 2006, 10:29 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Feb 10 2006, 09:41 PM)
Here's my latest image from the Jurassic period of lunar exploration.

Surveyor 6 - view to the northeast.  It shows the lanscape lit by a high sun after the 'hop' - and so we see two footpad imprints from the initial landing, plus the effects of rocket firing on the surface.  The color chart on the omnidirectional antenna is splattered with dirt.

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post Feb 11 2006, 10:04 AM
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Superb!!!
I really wait for your book;

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post Feb 11 2006, 11:57 AM
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<grins and applauds the Surveyor mosaics> So much better than the raw stuff!
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post Feb 11 2006, 08:10 PM
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QUOTE (Bernard @ Feb 11 2006, 11:04 AM)
Superb!!!
I really wait for your book;

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Yes; Phil should kindly bring forward the publishing date to, say, yesterday!

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post Feb 11 2006, 08:38 PM
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-Puff!- I'm working as fast as I can! -puff!- that one image took three weeks to make... and it's only one sixth of the entire panorama...

Plus... I just discovered a map of a proposed radio observatory in Tsiolkovsky crater, and I have to see if I can squeeze it in. And I have to wait for SMART-1's impact so I can map that... and I'm hoping the Chandrayaan-1 impact taget will be known in the summer so I can include that - Aaargh! It never ends.

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post Feb 11 2006, 09:08 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Feb 11 2006, 09:38 PM)
-Puff!- I'm working as fast as I can!  -puff!- that one image took three weeks to make... and it's only one sixth of the entire panorama...

Plus... I just discovered a map of a proposed radio observatory in Tsiolkovsky crater, and I have to see if I can squeeze it in.  And I have to wait for SMART-1's impact so I can map that... and I'm hoping the Chandrayaan-1 impact taget will be known in the summer so I can include that - Aaargh! It never ends.

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Luxury...

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post Feb 11 2006, 09:10 PM
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You're right, Bob.

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post Feb 12 2006, 01:52 AM
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Here is some progress on my Luna 9 work. Enjoy!





Interestingly enough, the Luna 9 camera position slowly changes, making it difficult to merge data from the pans. Either the craft is slowly settling or tipping, or the camera is sinking. This is illustrated in the slight change in position between pans 2 and 3. The part of the spacecraft in the forground gives great context, but unfortunately washes out the whole scene in pan 1. But nowhere is the motion more obvious.



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post Feb 12 2006, 02:00 AM
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The view on Moon surface is somewhat strange to me. Not like to the Earth colors since we have atmosphere which difracts the light into many colors that in the Moon does not happen. Staying in the Moon is like to take pictures of blank and white. Is not it? Maybe, we will se some gray colors too?

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Phil Stooke
post Feb 12 2006, 05:17 AM
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Very nice, Ted. The spacecraft tilted slightly between each pan - I don't know if anyone knows why. I also made a composite view of all three.

One interesting thing to try is to copy out the six thin vertical strips which were viewed in the three dihedral mirrors, reverse them and try to match their positions on the pans. I got some of them but not all. It was an ingenious attempt to measure topography from the thin slices of surface viewed from two positions. Some of the mirror strips add details below the bottom of the main panorama.

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