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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:Anyone know the location of the moon landings? by jdgeorge · · Score: 2

    ... nothing will.

    Correct! We have a winner!

  2. Alternate to download... by DigiTechGuy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Alternative to downloading 500+ MB .tif from overwhelmed server...

    Moon

  3. SWEET! Google Moon! by teaserX · · Score: 2

    ...or maybe GoogleMaps craterview would be cool

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    1. Re:SWEET! Google Moon! by molo · · Score: 2

      You mean like this?

      -molo

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  4. Re:Resolution by Zcar · · 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.

  5. Re:Misread the summary by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2

    Anyone else misread that as rearside? Time to lay off the porn.

    Well, that kind of porn, anyway.

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  6. Two observations by GodfatherofSoul · · Score: 2

    One looks like a deep dry river bed around Archimedes. WTF is that? It's not shallow like the others (I guess lava flows?). Second, I see a short crater rows. I guess this is from a stream of some disintegrated meteor?

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    1. Re:Two observations by mbone · · Score: 4, Informative

      Crater rows are typically secondary craters (i.e., the stuff splashed out of some larger impact).

  7. LIES! by Lumpy · · Score: 2

    From the article : "The combined image shows slight banding where the 1,024-pixel-wide swaths were stitched together."

    BULL! those are where the moon farmers were harvesting their moon wheat! It's all a coverup!

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  8. Re:Resolution by kent_eh · · Score: 2

    I'm waiting until the pictures are good enough to find that damn lost golf ball.

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  9. Re:Anyone know the location of the moon landings? by mbone · · 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.

  10. That's no moon... by aztektum · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait. These pictures indicate it it is. Sorry, everyone! False alarm.

    I'm so embarrassed.

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  11. Libration by tessellated · · Score: 2

    I wonder how they compensated the libration in the timeframe they took the images.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libration

    And no, I didn't read TFA.

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  12. Fast, smooth, zooming version at zoom.it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    A zooming version is available at zoom.it

  13. You won't be able to see the moon landing site by rimugu · · Score: 2

    Off course you won't be able to see the moon landing site.
    Some will tell you is because of resolution.
    I say it is because New Mexico is not in the moon.