Apollo Sites from LRO |
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Jul 18 2009, 10:35 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Yes, that one. Pretty nice, huh? One of my personal fave images, actually. Showed it in my talk last night, and it always impresses people. I think it's the contrast between the fragile-looking, puffy spacesuit and the OMG They Look Sharp! pointy rocks in the foreground... ;-) -------------------- |
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Jul 19 2009, 11:01 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 107 Joined: 29-January 09 Member No.: 4589 |
glennwsmith and robspace54.... yeah that is why Apollo 14 is one of my favorite missions. They were really extending their EVA reach, given no Rover. Any yeah, I am pretty confidant now those are the tracks going NE. They follow the mission plot pretty well. Cannot wait to see Cone Crater. Listen to the transcipts here http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/a14.html New Scientist has a nice gallery feature ("What if the Eagle had landed on Earth") showing the area covered during the respective moonlandings superimposed on a map of central London. The Apollo 14 map is here -------------------- Protein structures and Mars fun - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nick960/
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Jul 19 2009, 11:49 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
I like it. Anyway, what would be nice will be to put the LM at Victoria near Duck's bay entrance and do the same for the 6 landings.
This will put it more in a UMSF perspective. -------------------- |
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Jul 19 2009, 12:07 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 15-July 09 Member No.: 4867 |
Very nice job guys, the images are really great !
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Jul 19 2009, 12:18 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Stunning image processing work guys, I'm in awe of your skills, as usual...!
Thanks to everyone who gave me permission to use their work in my CS blog post about these fantastic images from LRO... Apollo Revisited. -------------------- |
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Jul 19 2009, 02:07 PM
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Jul 19 2009, 06:17 PM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Broken link Aaggghhh! Apologies anyone who tried to access that; glitch meant that Wordpress didn't accept the change from Private to Public status of the post. Working now at http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/apollo-revisited -------------------- |
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Jul 19 2009, 06:26 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Working fine now, Stu. Excellent post!
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Jul 19 2009, 06:36 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
I know it has a lot to do with a variety of factors, including sun angle and such, but I'm impressed that the MET tracks in the Fra Mauro images are more visible than LRV tracks are in the Hadley, Descartes and Taurus-Littrow images.
Perhaps the tracks at Fra Mauro are more visible because they are accompanied by a track of footprints (which are more visible in the J-mission site images than are areas where you would only find LRV tracks). But I'm a little surprised that LRV tracks, when unaccompanied by footprint tracks, are far less visible than I would have expected. -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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Jul 19 2009, 06:41 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
BTW -- my roommate seemed a little disappointed with the Fra Mauro image.
"Where's the golf ball?" is what he said to me. -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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Jul 19 2009, 08:21 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 157 Joined: 22-May 09 From: Ireland Member No.: 4792 |
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Jul 19 2009, 10:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 559 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Scotland (Ecosse, Escocia) Member No.: 759 |
At the beginning of this thread there is some discussion about the visiblity of the flags. Doubtless this will be re-visited when higher-res images of the sites become available. If still upright, we'd perhaps be looking for a shadow, or if fallen over (as at the Apollo 11 site), we'd expect to see a bright rectangular object.
HOWEVER, in the opinion of the guy whose company made the flags out of nylon and sold them to NASA for $5.50 each.... they will have gone brittle, disintegrated and turned to "ashes". I suppose here might be a stain left, but maybe not even that. Air & Space mag Finding Apollo |
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Jul 19 2009, 10:34 PM
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HOWEVER, in the opinion of the guy whose company made the flags out of nylon...[/url] With all due respect, it's not like this guy is a materials scientist or anything -- I doubt he has much idea of what vacuum exposure and temperature extremes will do to nylon (and I don't either, but I suspect the lunar environment is more benign than one might think -- most degradation of nylon on LDEF was from atomic oxygen, which is totally absent on the Moon.) We use nylon tie-wraps on instrument cables routinely. Fading of the flag from UV exposure seems almost inevitable, though. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Jul 20 2009, 12:02 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
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Jul 20 2009, 12:13 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
<shaking fist> @$%# LUNAR RODENT!!!
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