LOIRP LPSC Student Poster: New Lunar Crater Search Using LROC-NAC vs LOIRP Lunar Orbiter Images “While some candidate craters were observed that appeared in LROC data but not in Lunar […]
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Old Data: New Science
Student Project: New Lunar Crater Search Using LROC-NAC Vs LOIRP Lunar Orbiter Images “Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) is in possession of 1,478 2″ original analog tapes from 3 […]
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Photo Tour of Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
Four decades later, recovering lunar images (photos), CNET “Around 2005, space entrepreneur Dennis Wingo and Keith Cowing of NASA Watch learned of prior attempts at restoring the images. With a […]
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New Uses For Old NASA Computers
NASA Ames Research Center Helps Underserved School Receive Used Computers “Times are tough, but none more so than for schools and their students. To promote equal opportunity for all children, […]
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Lunar Boulders ala 1966 and 2010
More Boulders As Seen By Lunar Orbiter 2 “This high resolution image, subframe 2128_H2, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 22 November 1966 at 20:18:27 GMT. Two areas containing […]
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Technoarchaeology In Action
From Obsolete Technology, New Science, NOVA, PBS “Today, an engineer named Dennis Wingo is working to resurrect that data. He co-leads the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project–which, as the name […]
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Dennis Wingo at Maker Fair: McMoon's – Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
“We took 40 year old data tapes, tape drives that had been in a garage for 30 years, found elderly engineers, and reverse-engineered ancient technology to provide enhanced imagery from […]
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Dumpster Diving for Science
NASA Dives Into Its Past to Retrieve Vintage Satellite Data, Science (subscription) “Last month, researchers working out of an abandoned McDonald’s restaurant on the grounds of NASA Ames Research Center […]
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Google Earth Images From 1966
Technoarcheology and Earth Sciences, the Recovery of Nimbus II High Resolution Infrared Radiometer Data “In 2008 the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) began a NASA ESMD sponsored project to […]
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Lunar Echoes on STS-130
Mementos from canceled NASA moon plan flying on space shuttle, Collectspace “Together with a piece of Everest’s summit, also retrieved by Parazynski, the plaque-mounted moon rocks will be displayed inside […]