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New Radar Maps of Moon
SpaceAdmiral writes to mention that NASA has some new high-resolution radar maps of the Moon obtained by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The new images have also been used to create a simulation of the Moon's day and a movie of a Moon landing from the point of view of the astronaut. "NASA is eying the Moon's south polar region as a possible site for future outposts. The location has many advantages; for one thing, there is evidence of water frozen in deep dark south polar craters. Water can be split into oxygen to breathe and hydrogen to burn as rocket fuel--or astronauts could simply drink it. Planners are also looking for 'peaks of eternal light.' Tall polar mountains where the sun never sets might be a good place for a solar power station."
That's no moon, it's an overused joke!
NASA should concentrate on using nuclear energy. Much superior to solar, as Viking has proved, and the ISS has not.
Water can be split into oxygen to breathe and hydrogen to burn as rocket fuel...
And if the astronauts are breathing all of the O2, what oxidizing agent do they plan to burn the H2 with?
Journalists should really have some knowledge of the topic they're writing about before spouting their blather...
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I think their radar map was messed with by the Radar Men from the Moon.
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.. the celebrities vying to get the first house on the moon. On the plus side, there's always the possibility of some kind of explosion hurling the moon away from the earth, and into space. Accompanied by a funky seventies beat.
which we call 'the moon'
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increase the value of those parcels of the moon that have been sold thus far? Does anyone on /. own a piece of the moon? If so, what are you doing as far as time share arrangements?
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we have Ion drives? Not to mention, since NASA said there was nothing of worth on the moon 30+ years ago to go back. You mean they made a technical mistake or an accounting mistake (budget short fall)?
... but the RENT is unbelievable.
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I hope they didn't put a lot of time into this movie http://www.nasa.gov/mov/214261main_Lunar_Landing_Anim_4_Web.mov. The nerd in me was really excited as I clicked the link. Then not so much as I watched it.
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I came in prepared to watch it and argue with you, but damn, that video broke my spirit.
At least it's obvious that NASA hasn't been wasting money on video/graphics processing, editing and skills.
One of the movies on that page simulates how sunlight would fall on the moon during it's entire orbit. You can see a few spots where there is sunlight almost the entire rotation. These are good candidates for moon base locations because solar panels can get power almost continuously.
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It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
NASA is faking a moon landing for a video?
Didn't we get enough of this during the Apollo program?
I thought it was fantastic. That is THE rim of Shackleton crater. It was friggin amazing to see it in perspective next to the puny LSAM. The rest of the video was pretty hokey fo' sho', but seriously, THAT IS THE RIM! It's a the very accurate glimpse of the landscape we'll be cruising around and developing in 12+ years.
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WMV is popular too (unfortunately)
People must be stupid or something, to keep these shitty formats in use like this.
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Not to mention that the sparse ice regolith deposits would have to be extensively strip mined, presumably by nuclear powered equipment, and then chemically dissociated, another energy intensive process, to produce a minute amount of fuel and oxidizer. All this on a topography with 37,000 feet of elevation change. It is surprising how silly ideas like this persist.
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I was seven years old when Apollo XI landed on the moon. I grew up with the space race, and that was big part of what got me hooked on science and engineering. I watched every mission with absolute fascination, and dreamed endlessly about how space travel would continue to develop during my lifetime.
Now, nearly 40 years later, we've barely made progress on manned space travel. I am amazed and thrilled by the scientific successes achieved through unmanned satellites and probes. But humans haven't been further from Earth than San Diego is from Los Angeles in decades.
It's gotten to the point that I don't even want to read articles about NASA's manned space program anymore. What they're actually doing is pathetic; the aging, dangerous shuttles exist only to service ISS, and ISS exists only as a place for the shuttles to go. And NASA's plans for future moon and Mars missions are so long-term as to be meaningless; why talk about building solar power stations on eternally sunlit peaks when development of a new heavy-lift launch system is getting nowhere?
It's astonishing to me that I have gone from being thrilled with manned space travel to wincing when I read about it, but that's what has happened.
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It's a container format. It could very well be mpeg4 under the hood.
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I'd like to use this data in our Lunar Quest game project. Anyone happen to find a link to the dataset online?
Wait... What?!?
Unless the moon suddenly experienced a swapping of diameters, due to its being smaller than the Earth's shadow, it's NEVER going to have a period where there is constant sunlight.
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Here's a direct link to the imaages.
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