Friday, July 17, 2009

In case you missed it . . .

LRO Sees Apollo Landing Sites





The spacecraft's current elliptical orbit resulted in image resolutions that were slightly different for each site but were all around four feet per pixel. Because the deck of the descent stage is about 12 feet in diameter, the Apollo relics themselves fill an area of about nine pixels. However, because the sun was low to the horizon when the images were made, even subtle variations in topography create long shadows. Standing slightly more than ten feet above the surface, each Apollo descent stage creates a distinct shadow that fills roughly 20 pixels.


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8 comments:

Red Pill Junkie said...

The shadow of the "LEM" is so telling and distinctive.

They say that later they will have photographs with three times more resolution. I hope they get to post them in color, although I don't know if the camera they have permits it.

PS: Where's the flag?

PPS; Those "verification words" you need to type can be so synchronistical some times. right now I have to type "marker" :)

Anonymous said...

Why is there never any color photo's taken of the moon?

Is NASA hiding something?

Just go to a store and try to purchase a black and white camera these days. It is not an easy object to find.

Portland Magician said...

I can see my car on google 50 times better than this.

Their cameras are really that garbage?

I'm not a fan of NASA's lies.

fengleton said...

LM shadow, etc? Added by Nasa. So easy to fake these days one way or the other. (For or against)
If Nasa went to the moon, then they had help from an ET source. There's no way they had the technology to carry it out.

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