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Help identifying this map., Did Ludek Pesek use a real location?
gndonald
post Aug 8 2010, 03:20 PM
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In 1967 space artist Ludek Pesek wrote 'Log of a Moon Expedition' a curious work which, when I encountered it in high school had the feel of being written much earlier.

Recently I've been trying to locate a copy of this book and his later Mars Expedition book 'The Earth is Near' and found a few pages scanned, including the map I'm linking to below. The map shows the area in which the story takes place and seems to be based on telescopic images. But is it of a real location on the lunar surface or did he make it up out of the whole cloth?

Map of a Moon Expedition
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gndonald
post May 16 2013, 04:31 PM
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It has been a very long time since this thread was added to, but I though this post on David S.F. Portree's blog Beyond Apollo about the "Log of a Moon Expedition" might be of interest. He identifies the location of the fictional landing site as Sinus Medii...

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/...xpedition-1964/
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- gndonald   Help identifying this map.   Aug 8 2010, 03:20 PM
- - PDP8E   Very interesting map ... (what we really need a wo...   Aug 8 2010, 04:29 PM
|- - gndonald   UNNECESSARY INLINE QUOTE REMOVED - ADMIN I'll...   Aug 9 2010, 01:40 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Interesting map. I hadn't seen it before. It...   Aug 9 2010, 11:14 AM
- - Phil Stooke   Ok, it's fictitious, but Pesek was very well a...   Aug 9 2010, 02:33 PM
|- - gndonald   --- Full quote removed. Thanks, I pulled up my ...   Aug 9 2010, 03:37 PM
|- - jasedm   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Aug 9 2010, 03:33 PM...   Aug 9 2010, 06:16 PM
- - Phil Stooke   He probably wanted a place with a greater concentr...   Aug 9 2010, 03:57 PM
- - Phil Stooke   CSI Moon? Phil   Aug 10 2010, 01:40 PM
- - gndonald   It has been a very long time since this thread was...   May 16 2013, 04:31 PM

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