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 […]
Lunar Orbiter
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A Weather Report From the Moon
Nimbus II and Lunar Orbiter 1 Imagery: A New Look at Earth in 1966, Moonviews “To date some of the images taken by Nimbus II have been enhanced and mapped […]
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The Boulders of Copernicus
“This image represents a portion of the central uplift within the crater Copernicus. The image, LOV-152-H1, was taken by Lunar Orbiter V on 16 August 1967 at an altitude of […]
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Lunar Orbiter: Comparing Old and New Images
Keith’s note: These images are taken from Lunar Orbiter II image LOII_092H1 Framelet 522. On the left is the highest resolution scanned version available online at LPI (or USGS). On […]
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Looking at Boulders on the Moon
Keith’s note: Tonight we are testing out our newest Mac computer at the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project located at NASA ARC. We’ll be using this machine (8 processors and […]
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New York Times Waxes Poetic On The Moon (Again)
The Human Moon, Editorial, NY Times “Perhaps the wistfulness is caused by the sense of simple grandeur in those Apollo missions. Perhaps, too, it’s a reminder of the risk we […]
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Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Video: Two FR-900 Drives Operational
“The LOIRP Project has reached a major milestone of having two Ampex FR-900 Instrumentation Tape Drives operational at once. This will allow us to accelerate the production of images. This […]