April 11, 2014

Mcmoon Special

image by " rel="nofollow Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project.

This image is a second earthrise photo recovered from the Lunar Orbiter 1 image tapes by the gang at McMoon's (a disused McDonald's restaurant) at Nasa Ames. They have digitized all the tapes and now are planning to process them. A great resource has been saved from the ravages of technology advances and time. They are so much clearer than the " rel="nofollow originals online, and the " rel="nofollow LOPAM book of plates. I for one look forward to browsing the enhanced images in the future!


Above: one of the tape reels containing the recorded data from Lunar Orbiter.

" rel="nofollow Maurice Collins

Technical Details
The image was taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 on 25 August 1966 at 13:02:05UT.

Related Links
Moon Views LOIRP website: " rel="nofollow http://www.moonviews.com/
More info on the earthrise image:
" rel="nofollow http://www.moonviews.com/2014/03/the-otherlunar-orbiter-earthrise-image-released.html
Lunar Orbiter Digital image atlas: " rel="nofollow http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/

21st Century Atlas Limb chart L2.

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