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 Oct 7 2009, 03:08 PM
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QUOTE (marswiggle @ Oct 7 2009, 09:46 AM)  Both are centered at the lander... Before I clicked on the image, I could have sworn I was looking at a dinosaur. |
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Oct 7 2009, 04:12 PM
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Fantastic stuff - I'm showing my age, no doubt, but I get quite the nostalgic glow at that peculiarly Soviet-era Russian low-contrast shades-of-grey style of images; it would be really nice if there was any way to extract sharper versions from the images as released (although I doubt that's practical.) Also really cool to see rover tracks on a surface other than Mars
 I wonder if there's any way to communicate our collective delight and gratitude for this release back to those responsible? -------------------- --
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Oct 7 2009, 04:17 PM
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QUOTE (imipak @ Oct 7 2009, 11:12 AM) I wonder if there's any way to communicate our collective delight and gratitude for this release back to those responsible? The site gives an e-mail address: atbas @ geokhi.ru |
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Oct 7 2009, 05:33 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10150 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Yes, that is Alexander (Sasha) Basilevsky, a veteran of planetary science in Russia. He worked on Lunokhod, as well as helping plan human landing sites before the Soviet lunar landing program was cancelled.
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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Oct 8 2009, 03:52 AM
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Wow, these images are incredible.
Imagine if we (UMSF) could get a hold of the raw images and reprocess them. Very cool project indeed  I thought I'd have a play with one image just to clean it up and 'artistically' fill in some gaps. Please, oh, please someone release the full, un-watermarked images to us. 1) artistic clean-up
2) original
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Oct 8 2009, 09:24 AM
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Wow Astro0 that is an absolutely stunning image once its cleaned up! I'm going right back up this thread to do my own data 'suckage'
I always wondered what panoramas from this potentially spectacular part of the Moon would look like, without really expecting to ever see much of this dataset. And now we can! P |
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Oct 8 2009, 01:37 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Can anyone tell us how far away and how high those mountains are ?
Thanks. |
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Oct 8 2009, 03:07 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10150 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Different parts of the rim of Le Monnier crater are visible in different images. The prominent highlands in some of the early views are Le Monnier Alpha, the southwestern part of the rim of the crater facing into Mare Serentiatis. They are 30 km away and (from this map:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatal...lm42/150dpi.jpg about 1200 m high. See also this earlier version of the map which names the hill: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatal...ac42/150dpi.jpg Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Oct 8 2009, 04:48 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1582 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
QUOTE (Astro0 @ Oct 7 2009, 10:52 PM) 1) artistic clean-up
Quickish question for all the loonies here. How common is regolith that looks more like gravel like this? |
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Oct 8 2009, 05:40 PM
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Really impressive work, Astro0. The expresion "artistic clean-up" seems quite reductive to me because, apart from the two vertical dark bands and the shadowed spacecraft portion, it seems quite rigorous... A question: where did you take the spacecraft details in the left portion? (they seems completely black in the original image!)
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Oct 8 2009, 08:25 PM
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QUOTE (stevesliva @ Oct 8 2009, 08:48 AM) Quickish question for all the loonies here. How common is regolith that looks more like gravel like this? I'm guessing it's just an artifact of the low-res/low-contrast imaging. To my eyes, it looks more or less the same as any other lunar site I've seen (maybe I need to get my eyes checked?). |
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Oct 8 2009, 09:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Dilo asked: Where did you take the spacecraft details in the left portion?
I pulled it out of another panorama in this set of wonderful images. stevesliva asked: How common is regolith that looks more like gravel like this? As Gsnorgathon said, I think it's more to do with the lowres/lowcontrast image presented here. In the full version the surface is typical of the fine regolith and distribution of rocks seen elsewhere. |
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Oct 9 2009, 03:47 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Thanks for the answer, Astro0.
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Oct 12 2009, 03:55 PM
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I checked today link to "Laboratory for comparative planetology", and again met me a nice surprise.
Lunokhod 1 Panoramas 
Courtesy Vincent Meens -------------------- Free software for planetary science (including Cassini Image Viewer).
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marinerall.html |
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Oct 12 2009, 05:20 PM
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QUOTE (peter59 @ Oct 12 2009, 05:55 PM) Lunokhod 1 Panoramas Supercool! I particularly like the 3rd day "return to home" images of the spent lander and the late day dark panoramas |
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