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 Feb 6 2006, 12:39 AM
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Solar System Cartographer  Group: Members Posts: 10255 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227  |
Yes... I'm very pleased to report that I have just rediscovered the Lunar Picture of the Day website. It was out of commission for quite a while, but since Jan. 17 it's been back in business.
If you haven't seen it before, it contains a spectacular and/or interesting image with caption every day. The best amateur shots, which are truly amazing these days, and occasional images from lunar missions of the past, or historic images like old maps. Very worthwhile. Phil http://www.lpod.org/ -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf 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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Feb 6 2006, 01:14 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Thanks for the heads up, Phil.
I had recently removed LPOD from my bookmarks bar due to inactivity... (It nestled so nicely between APOD and EPOD) Glad to be able to restore it to its rightful place. 
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Feb 6 2006, 08:08 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Subotica Member No.: 384 |
QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Feb 6 2006, 03:39 AM) ... I'm very pleased to report that I have just rediscovered the Lunar Picture of the Day website. http://www.lpod.org/  Thank you! It was earlier one of my favorites and now it's back... If you ever dicide to put it "out of commission for quite a while" you should write it down somewhere on site...  I thought something bad has happened to you... I'm just glad that you are back 
-------------------- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules H. Poincare My "Astrophotos" gallery on flickr... |
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 Feb 6 2006, 01:20 PM
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We should go for the ' UnmannedSpacecraft Photo of the Day '
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Feb 7 2006, 07:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Feb 5 2006, 07:39 PM) Yes... I'm very pleased to report that I have just rediscovered the Lunar Picture of the Day website. It was out of commission for quite a while, but since Jan. 17 it's been back in business. If you haven't seen it before, it contains a spectacular and/or interesting image with caption every day. The best amateur shots, which are truly amazing these days, and occasional images from lunar missions of the past, or historic images like old maps. Very worthwhile. Phil http://www.lpod.org/ Phil, Congratulations, I have just visited that URL and it is a good Moon Portal and I have alread bookmarked it. It is very worthwhile as you said. Rodolfo |
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Feb 20 2006, 10:47 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
LPOD has some cleaned up Lunar Orbiter images up:
LPOD unstriped Lunar image and discussion: http://www.lpod.org/index.php?paged=8 http://www.lpod.org/?p=76#comments Unstriped LO image of Plato: http://solarsystem.dlr.de/HofW/nr/060/ And from the horse's mouth: USGS Astrogeology: Lunar Orbiter Digitisation Project: http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/Luna...erDigitization/ Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Feb 21 2006, 02:15 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10255 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Bob, your first link is NOT to a cleaned-up LO image.
I just reviewed the Byrne book... it's very good as far as the images go, and it containbs a CD-ROM with more images than appear in print. But the indexing is awful, so trying to find a specific feature is hard unless it happens to be one he mentions in the text. Byrne worked at Bellcomm in the 60s, helping select Apollo landing sites. In fact he wrote the minutes of the meetings - I spoke to him in Houston a few years ago. the USGS project is excellent... first they worked on the medium-range images to get near-global coverage, now they are going into the high resolution images of Apollo candidate sites and other science targets. Very good results. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf 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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Feb 21 2006, 02:44 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Feb 21 2006, 02:15 PM) Bob, your first link is NOT to a cleaned-up LO image. Phil Phil: Sorry, Ted! Went a bit mad there! Try this instead: http://www.lpod.org/index.php?paged=9 Bob Shaw
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-------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Jun 5 2006, 09:55 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
I think folks here might be interested in these two recent additions to the LPOD.
NASA World Wind software is now applied from Earth to the Moon: http://www.lpod.org/?m=20060531 Identifying features on a 2.6-day old Moon: http://www.lpod.org/?m=20060601 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Mar 19 2007, 01:28 PM
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 Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4405 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
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Mar 19 2007, 03:24 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Once again, that's an impressive feat you've pulled with that originally very hazy image, Ted.
Nice work! -------------------- |
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Mar 19 2007, 03:45 PM
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I'm a bit "wtf?" with the Nozomi image you did previously Ted...where in hells name did that little data set come from
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Mar 19 2007, 08:01 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4405 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
More Nozomi stuff to come.....I didn't say anything about that one because I don't like the way it ended up looking. I think this version is better.
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Mar 20 2007, 12:25 AM
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 Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 98 Joined: 29-July 05 From: Amsterdam, NL Member No.: 448 |
Wow. That's great! I guess we're coming up on 10 years for that picture...
Not to get too far off topic, but how many sets did Nozomi end up taking? I note that it had several Earth/Moon flybys on its tortured path to Mars (September and December 1998, December 2002, and June 2003). It was also part of the armada that sailed to Mars in 2003 but was deemed "not sufficiently clean of bugs" and forced to flyby at a distance of 1000km. It seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle since Mars Express, Spirit, and Opportunity enjoyed such widespread success. Did the Japanese operators work in a flyby sequence? |
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Mar 20 2007, 02:56 AM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4405 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
QUOTE (NMRguy @ Mar 20 2007, 12:25 AM) Wow. That's great! I guess we're coming up on 10 years for that picture... Not to get too far off topic, but how many sets did Nozomi end up taking? I note that it had several Earth/Moon flybys on its tortured path to Mars (September and December 1998, December 2002, and June 2003). It was also part of the armada that sailed to Mars in 2003 but was deemed "not sufficiently clean of bugs" and forced to flyby at a distance of 1000km. It seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle since Mars Express, Spirit, and Opportunity enjoyed such widespread success. Did the Japanese operators work in a flyby sequence? To answer your first question, there were several Nozomi sequences, but with very few images and heavy onboard jpeging, as Nozomi had very little onboard storage. Yes, they did work in a flyby sequence, but due to problems with the spacecraft, it could not be transmitted. -------------------- |
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