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A Half-Gigabyte View of the Moon

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Re:Half GB worth of pictures? by C_amiga_fan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >>>It's actually a single, gigantic .tif file.

    Looks like one giant Gray glob on dialup.... Oh wait - forgot to turn off the IMG compression.

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