Highly detailed photographs of the Moon taken by the Apollo missions are being made available to the public for the first time in more than 30 years. Photos taken on the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions in the 1970s showed the Moon in great detail but were only ever viewed by a few scientists. Since then they have been locked away in freezers by Nasa to preserve them. Arizona State University is now making them available from the internet after using high resolution scanners.
"We're scanning the pictures in a very high bit resolution - 14 bits - which means that for each pixel, you have about 16,000 shades of grey," Mark Robinson, a professor of Geological Sciences and the principal investigator on the project, told BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme. "A typical scan of a negative or film is eight bits. So it's not only that we're scanning this at a very high pixel resolution - showing detail to five millionths of a metre - but it's also a high bit resolution, because we want to preserve as much of the original information as possible."
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"We're scanning the pictures in a very high bit resolution - 14 bits - which means that for each pixel, you have about 16,000 shades of grey," Mark Robinson, a professor of Geological Sciences and the principal investigator on the project, told BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme. "A typical scan of a negative or film is eight bits. So it's not only that we're scanning this at a very high pixel resolution - showing detail to five millionths of a metre - but it's also a high bit resolution, because we want to preserve as much of the original information as possible."
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For amateur use, it would be interesting if they could publish pictures not only pointing point blank at the surface, like on vehicles and astronauts. Although I understand if the scientific interest may be greater for those surface shots.
Of course, seeing the Kinkos printout was beautiful because all the detail was there.
It's nice to see you still live in the 50's.
Look, I believe we went. But it's not something to close your mind to when you see all the contradicting evidence.
Look, I believe we went. But it's not something to close your mind to when you see all the contradicting evidence.
There is no contradicting evidence. Only illinformed people making bad assumptions and basing their calculations on blatantly wrong data. Anyone that thinks otherwise knows nothing.
I don't think you are + anything, the first guy was sarcastc form his smiley, and the second guy was definately not a plus one
Look, I believe we went. But it's not something to close your mind to when you see all the contradicting evidence.
There is no contradicting evidence. Only illinformed people making bad assumptions and basing their calculations on blatantly wrong data. Anyone that thinks otherwise knows nothing.
I think that your a little blinkered yourself, take a look at Astronauts Gone Wild - An investigation into the authenticity of the moon landings, it came out in 2004 and you might just change your mind. Ignore the 'Gone Wild' bit its not about their celebration parties these are interviews with all the pilots/astronauts.
Look, I believe we went. But it's not something to close your mind to when you see all the contradicting evidence.
There is no contradicting evidence. Only illinformed people making bad assumptions and basing their calculations on blatantly wrong data. Anyone that thinks otherwise knows nothing.
I think that your a little blinkered yourself, take a look at Astronauts Gone Wild - An investigation into the authenticity of the moon landings, it came out in 2004 and you might just change your mind. Ignore the 'Gone Wild' bit its not about their celebration parties these are interviews with all the pilots/astronauts.
One sided data in a video documentary can make anything seem plausible. If you filter out the bad info and look at the real data you will see that the documentary is a bunch of fud.
It's nice to see you still live in the 50's.
Nobody in the 50's argued whether or not the moon landings were faked.
lol
if the usa faked the moon landings don't you think the soviet russia back then wouldn't of kicked up a fuss?
The USSR would not be stupid enough to just say that the USA made a fake landing publicly without any evidence even if they new it was true.
If it was faked, they probably faked the first one, and then really landed later on one of the 'return missions.'
http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/METRIC_PREVIEW/index.html
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