Lunar Orbiter Imagery Presented on NASA Ames Hyperwall 2, Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project “Last week one of the images retrieved by the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) was […]
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Earthrise Photographed 47 Years Ago Today
First Earthrise Photo Taken 47 Years Ago Today “47 Years ago today, on 23 August 1966, Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped the first photo of Earth as seen from lunar orbit. […]
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People Will Write Checks To Explore Space (update)
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project: how you can help save historic space data, Boing Boing “The LOIRP team managed to obtain original tape drives from the 1960s (covered in dust […]
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The Floor of Copernicus
Copernicus Crater Mosaic, NASA Lunar Science Institute “This mosaic of the floor of crater Copernicus was created by combining the following 24 high resolution images taken by Lunar Orbiter V […]
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Dumpster Diving for Science
According to Science magazine: NASA Dives Into Its Past to Retrieve Vintage Satellite Data: “They cleaned, rebuilt, and reassembled one drive, then designed and built equipment to convert the analog […]
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Please Help Support the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
“We are looking for people to help us complete the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP). We call this technoarchaeology – mining the past to support science in the future. […]
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A New Look at Old Images
Lunar Orbiter 3 Image 3121_H1 – Tsiolkovskiy Crater Keith’s note: This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 3121_H1, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 3 on 19 February 1967 at 19:22 […]
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Earthrise + 46 Years
First Earthrise Photo Taken 46 Years Ago Today “46 Years ago today, on 23 August 1966, Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped the first photo of Earth as seen from lunar orbit. […]
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New Uses for Old Moon Data
Comparing Moon Boulders: Lunar Orbiter (1967) Vs LRO (2012) “[Left] image taken on 11 August 1967 by Lunar Orbiter 5 [Right] Image taken of the same location by LRO in […]
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Printing The Moon One Character At A Time
Printing The Moon, Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project “As clever as we thought we were, we were not the first team to tackle the issue of generating high resolution imagery. […]