A Half-Gigabyte View of the Moon

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A Half-Gigabyte View of the Moon

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 3, 2011 @04:00AM from the more-pixels-and-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new 24,000-pixel-square half-gigabyte mosaic from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Moon's nearside as never before. The 1,300 black-and-white frames were acquired during a two-week period in December 2010. There is also video of the half gig moon."

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Alternate to download... by DigiTechGuy · 2011-03-03 04:29 · Score: 2, Informative

Alternative to downloading 500+ MB .tif from overwhelmed server...
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Re:Resolution by Zcar · 2011-03-03 04:46 · Score: 5, Informative

Not this image.
This is a mosaic from the LROC's wide angle camera. A rough, back-of-the-envelope calculate dividing the diameter of the moon by 24000 pixels suggests a spatial resolution around 140m.
The 0.5m resolution is from the main camera. A 0.5m mosaic of the entire Earth-facing side of the moon would be on the order of 7000000x7000000 not 24000x24000.
Re:Anyone know the location of the moon landings? by mbone · 2011-03-03 05:06 · Score: 3, Informative

All the interesting stuff is on the far side of the moon. Wonder when they'll release those high-resolution photos...
Like this one ?
They are all available - I would suggest you start by browsing the gallery.
Re:Two observations by mbone · 2011-03-03 05:08 · Score: 4, Informative

Crater rows are typically secondary craters (i.e., the stuff splashed out of some larger impact).
Fast, smooth, zooming version at zoom.it by Anonymous Coward · 2011-03-03 05:54 · Score: 2, Informative

A zooming version is available at zoom.it