Digitized Apollo Flight Films Available Online

Digitized Apollo Flight Films Available Online, Arizona State University partners with NASA to digitize original films

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SkyeLab View Member Profile	Aug 1 2007, 02:16 PM Post #1
Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 11-October 04 From: Oxford, UK (Glasgow by birth) Member No.: 101	From the following SpaceRef article: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=23141 Archive viewable here: http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/ Enjoy!!!!!!!! Brian -------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary code, and those who don't."

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tedstryk View Member Profile	Aug 1 2007, 10:35 PM Post #2
Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4407 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33	This is really exciting. There was a early thread here a few years ago where we talked about hoping someone would do this. I know I personally have avoided working with Apollo imagery because I didn't want to waste my time enhancing crappy multi-generation-negative based scans when I knew the originals existed (as opposed to some Russian data, for example, where I am not sure if the original data even does exist). Thanks! -------------------- Temporary home for some of my images... My Webpage My Blog

ElkGroveDan View Member Profile	Aug 1 2007, 11:31 PM Post #3
Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197	Someone pass the swear jar. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.

Tman View Member Profile	Aug 6 2007, 11:16 AM Post #4
Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186	That is fantastic - finally! That's (was) on many wish listes for a long time. http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/METRIC_PREVIEW/...S15-M-0083.html -------------------- Peter MER filename decoding into local true solar time - MSL clock and filename decoding

djellison View Member Profile	Aug 6 2007, 11:32 AM Post #5
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	The headlines on this story are missleading. It should be 'Digitized Apollo Flight Films TO BE MADE Available Online' Doug

Tman View Member Profile	Aug 6 2007, 11:49 AM Post #6
Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186	You're right. First I was disappointed too -------------------- Peter MER filename decoding into local true solar time - MSL clock and filename decoding

paxdan View Member Profile	Aug 6 2007, 12:23 PM Post #7
Member Group: Members Posts: 563 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221	I gotta confess I was too. What i'd been hoping for was a downloadable archive of the 'movies' shot from the LRV Camera. There is a sequence i saw on a C4 chillout show years ago consisting of about 5-10 mins of the view forward during a drive between sites. It was really high quality and i'd love to get my hands on it. Yes i've seen the films on the ALSJ. This also brings up another question, i have never ever encountered a name for the LRVs, beyond the generic 'moon buggy'. Anyone heard if they were even given nicknames?

Phil Stooke View Member Profile	Aug 8 2007, 12:19 AM Post #8
Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10265 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227	It's off topic... but no, the LRVs were never given individual nicknames. They were just referred to as "the LRV" every time. Check out the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal for exhaustve evidence. 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)

dvandorn View Member Profile	Aug 8 2007, 05:45 PM Post #9
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15	More specifically, the LRVs were referred to as simply "the rover" in most instances. Each did have its own designation, of course -- LRV-1, LRV-2 and LRV-3. (LRV-4 was partially built and then converted into a one-G trainer.) LRVs 2 and 3 each benefitted from experience on the previous missions, and LRV-3 was outfitted rather differently from the first two, with significant changes to the geology pallet (where the tools were kept), the removal of the 16-mm DAC and its mounting pole, and the addition of the SEP receiver and antenna. -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain

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Aug 13 2007, 10:03 PM

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DILO suggested me to work on Metric Cam samples reported here:
http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/METRIC_PREVIEW/
He gived me cropped/rescaled version of first two pictures (AS15-M-0081/82)
I produced an anaglyph:

and a Digital Elevation Model using my program "shape from stereo".
Resolution is 50px resampled to 1px with a spline interpolation. I tried a better resolution but I got noise problems.
Here a 3d view of the scene:

Cheers,
Ale

dilo View Member Profile	Aug 14 2007, 06:22 AM Post #11
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150	Great work, Alex! My attempt to make anaglyph from these images wasn't so good... I think you should better explain how your "shape from stereo" program works, this is something completely different from photoclinometry you did in the past. A couple of considerations about the project: Based on technical data they report here, scanner resolution is 14 bit/color; however, from raw image size they report, image depth is 15 bit for metric camera and 16bit/color for all other standards, except the 35mm negative which were scanned with only 8bit/channel resolution. About latter format, they say scan is already completed, so I wonder why they didn't publish yet. I computed that total size of the final archive and the result is impressive: almost 70 TB of raw/TIFF images, the majority of wich will be from panoramic camera. If someone wants to download all this huge archive, consider that it will take almost one year of CONTINUOUS download at an average speed of 20 Mbit/sec! Even to download "small" PNG images (only 1/4 original size and 8 bit resolution) you'll need almost two months with a more realistic 10 Mbit/s, 8 hours/day connection... -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -

FordPrefect View Member Profile	Nov 14 2007, 10:53 PM Post #12
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 41 Joined: 12-April 06 Member No.: 738	Hey all, just thought its worth mentioning, that the first series of metric images taken from Apollo 15 are available now, each from low to hi resolutions (high=1.2 GB!) Great stuff! http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/webmap-bin/apollo.pl

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