Lunokhod-1 - visualization, some rendered images about Lunokhod-1 mission Options

[Station]

Hi everyone,

In a spark of free time I decided to prepare few scenes including soviet union's Lunokhod-1 lunar rover. The rover was modelled and rendered using Cinema 4D, the lunar terrain created thanks to Terragen, then everything put together in Photoshop.

Here go some previews and links to FULLHD versions. Hopefully you enjoy it

Ofc feel free to download it and use as your new desktop wallpaper

Maciej, Poland




FULL HD ver: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img923/5052/EGonVS.jpg



FULL HD ver: http://imageshack.com/a/img923/839/o3Lxwq.jpg



FULL HD ver: http://imageshack.com/a/img924/6623/3xBmAd.jpg



FULL HD ver: http://imageshack.com/a/img922/355/9L2wE9.jpg

[Phil Stooke]

I made some big blunders with Lunokhod 2 in my old moon book, so now I am updating it I am determined to do everything just right.

OK - this is supposed to be a Lunokhod 1 thread, but I didn't want to make a new thread just for this.

So... I have completely remapped the route in a style like my Mars rover maps (labelling still in progress), and I just made this, which I am inordinately proud of. I have wanted to do it for years. The Lunokhod cameras did not lend themselves to horizon mapping because of the limited coverage of the horizon in each image and the limited number of actual panoramas. I think the only possible place where a full Lunokhod 2 panorama might be possible is at the landing site, where there are a lot of images. The rover was moving but not enough to mess up the distant horizon. However, it does mean the foreground is compromised so it is cropped out here. By judiciously combining all available horizon fragments I have produced this:



The big massif at lower right is Far Cape and Near Cape together. The long range of hills running north from there and around the top (north) of the circle is the rim of Le Monnier crater, which is visible all the way to its northwestern terminus. A hill due south is the 'Tangled Hills' or 'Oncoming Hills' of Russian maps (PS there's a great new paper in press in Icarus by Irina Karachevtseva and colleagues on Lunokhod 2). Contrary to my previous thoughts on the topic, the hill Le Monnier Alpha is not visible, and two small hills to the southwest are probably on the ridge between the rover and Le Monnier Alpha.

Phil