July 28, 2024
McMoon Special
Originally published April 11, 2014
image by 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 originals online, and the 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.
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: http://www.moonviews.com/
More info on the earthrise image:
http://www.moonviews.com/2014/03/the-otherlunar-orbiter-earthrise-image-released.html
Lunar Orbiter Digital image atlas: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/
21st Century Atlas Limb chart L2.
Yesterday's LPOD: Wacky
Tomorrow's LPOD: One of Those Nights!
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