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Apollo-Era Photos Now Up at NASA's Flickr Account, In High-Res

Posted by timothy on from the fruits-of-operation-paperclip dept.

Boing Boing reports that NASA has uploaded to its Flickr account 8400 photographs from the agency's Apollo days -- "just about every image captured by Apollo astronauts on lunar missions." The astronauts were shooting with some very nice cameras, and the results are worth seeing at 1800dpi.

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  1. How about that by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    We get to see Neil's blurry thumb 2,000 times.

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    1. Re:How about that by KGIII · · Score: 1

      Umm... Unless I am missing something, it appears that they did not misspell anything. They failed to include a word but they didn't misspell anything that I can see. My spelling isn't that good but those are pretty simple words and I think I'm spelling them properly. So, if spelling is the greatest accomplishment you've done then...

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    2. Re:How about that by Tablizer · · Score: 2

      And what did you with your life

      As my grandfather always said, if you can't beat 'em, and you can't join 'em, then joke about 'em.

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    3. Re: How about that by KGIII · · Score: 1

      I get where you were going with it now. I suppose that would, indeed, be a misspelling.

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    4. Re:How about that by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 1

      We get to see Neil's blurry thumb 2,000 times.

      One small jiggle for a man, one giant blur for humanity!
      Actually, some of the side shots of craters are a great example of shadows seemingly "going the wrong way" do to topology. And the curvature of the moon is so apparent on shots featuring a horizon, very nice. Thanks NASA.

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    5. Re:How about that by ihtoit · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually, both are correct. "Learnt" is the outside-the-US variant spelling (ie, the Oxford spelling). "Learned" is the American (Webster) spelling.

      Citation, you don't have to take the word of an English teacher and the son of an English teacher.

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    6. Re:How about that by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 1

      I wouldn't mind a high quality picture of Buzz decking that moon-landing hoax dude who was harassing him.

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    7. Re:How about that by ihtoit · · Score: 1

      why don't you post them, if you're that certain they exist you must surely have a copy already?

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    8. Re:How about that by ihtoit · · Score: 1

      History is fuck all to do with the discussion. Current spellings are. Wind your neck in.

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    9. Re:How about that by dsmatthews9379 · · Score: 1

      That is not a thumb, it is a bum! https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

    10. Re:How about that by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 3, Informative

      The etymology of words is interesting, but has limited application in deciding correct modern forms and usage. As anyone who knows a little German would recognize, the word "learn" is Germanic in origin, explaining the original past tense of "learnt". The trend is towards using regular English endings in words with Germanic roots. Thus, "learned" has been an acceptable past tense of "learn" in all dialects of English for quite some time. Indeed, apart from in British English, the older form "learnt" has almost died out.

    11. Re:How about that by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      Go with the presidential form: "Lernified", or "Lernifaad" with a southern tinge.

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    12. Re:How about that by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      The trend is towards using regular English endings in words with Germanic roots.

      It makes good sense, too. English has so many rules specifically because it hasn't done that in the past, so we have words constructed with rules for latin, greek, german, english, etc., as you clearly know. It's infuriating.

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    13. Re:How about that by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 1

      or I could have said "due to topology"...

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    14. Re:How about that by Jack+Griffin · · Score: 1

      Thus, "learned" has been an acceptable past tense of "learn" in all dialects of English for quite some time. Indeed, apart from in British English, the older form "learnt" has almost died out.

      Says some guy on the Internet...

  2. Re:Silly question but.... by 0123456 · · Score: 1

    There were automated cameras: for example, on the rockets to record behaviour for post-launch analysis, and. I believe, on the LEM to record the landing. But the ones I looked at from this set would all have been taken by astronauts.

  3. Re:FAKE! by jblues · · Score: 1

    Well spotted! Here's what really happened.

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  4. why should I sign up for public domain pix. by Trax3001BBS · · Score: 2

    They have always been public domain, nothing has changed, don't need any fancy interface t show up 1000 photos of the surface.

    1. Re:why should I sign up for public domain pix. by ihtoit · · Score: 1

      I haven't seen these on the JPL Public Image Archive, they seem to be very selective about what goes up there. What I would like is list access to the images like I have with the PIA so I can add them to my video wall slideshow.

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    2. Re:why should I sign up for public domain pix. by ihtoit · · Score: 5, Informative

      asked then answered: the full resolution images are accesible in list view here arranged by mission and referenced by film cassette and frame number. Tidy. :)

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    3. Re:why should I sign up for public domain pix. by dinfinity · · Score: 1

      I'd like to add that the link in TFA should be replaced with the Album-based view, which is more informative and logically separated:
      https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

  5. But... by EmeraldBot · · Score: 1

    I'll bet some people will still deny the existance of the Apollo mission. It's reaching the point where it's a great detector for either laziness in research or severe mental health issues, sadly...

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    1. Re:But... by Jamu · · Score: 1

      And all NASA needed to do to convince them, would be to photoshop an alien into one of the photos.

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  6. Earthrise by Solandri · · Score: 2

    Interesting to see how many shots they took of the famous "Earthrise" photo. A dozen shots ruined by something in the foreground blurring parts of the picture, and the sequence with the Earth actually rising blown by not pointing the camera in the right direction. Now I feel better about my photography.

    1. Re:Earthrise by 0123456 · · Score: 1

      If I remember correctly, those photos weren't planned, they just saw the Earth rising outside the window and grabbed a camera.

    2. Re:Earthrise by rwa2 · · Score: 1

      Yeah, that was pretty amazing:
      http://www.npr.org/sections/th...

  7. Actual proper Silly question but.... by camperdave · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actual proper Silly question but.... The moon landing was 45 years ago. Why are these only being released now?

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    1. Re:Actual proper Silly question but.... by 50000BTU_barbecue · · Score: 4, Informative

      They've always been available; as printed books. I have NASA Gemini mission books that are nothing but plates.

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    2. Re:Actual proper Silly question but.... by Golden_Rider · · Score: 1

      Most of them have already been available for a couple years on the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal website: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/fr...

  8. Accomplishments by thinkwaitfast · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can fool all of the people all of the time if your effects budget is large enough
    Chill out. It's a joke.

  9. Can you see Mars to the right of Earth? by dsmatthews9379 · · Score: 1

    In this image (one of my favourites) , https://www.flickr.com/photos/... is that red dot Mars, off to the right of Earth?

    1. Re:Can you see Mars to the right of Earth? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 2

      Unlikely, given that you can't see any stars, and it's not in any of the surrounding similar photos.

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  10. It's not just me by J-1000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's good to know I'm not the only one who has to take a million crappy photos before I get a good one.

  11. Sorry this is a scam! by thephydes · · Score: 2

    Everyone knows that the moon landing was a fake! This should be enough for all you doubters http://listverse.com/2012/12/2... Jesus Slashdot, post some real science for fuck sake Sad thing is the conspiracy theorists are alive and well ..... and breeding

    1. Re:Sorry this is a scam! by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1

      Laughable. Even the headline of the article isn't convinced by its own content: "10 Reasons the Moon Landings Could Be a Hoax." Have some conviction!

      Their number 1 is even completely wrong. The backgrounds don't match exactly. Parallax is evident, proving that the shots were taken from different locations relative to the mountains.

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  12. They aren't fooling me by paiute · · Score: 1

    These are obviously shopped. I can tell from the pixels - it doesn't matter that they added more of them.

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  13. Re: So many fakes by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 1

    They are not PC which is why they need to die.

    Republicans are Mac?

  14. Re:Silly question but.... by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

    Were all the pictures taken by the astronauts? I would guess that an automated camera would have required too much film or manual reloading anyways.

    No, they were taken by Stanley Kubrick.

    http://news.discovery.com/spac...

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  15. NOT NASA's flicker account by BradMajors · · Score: 1

    This is not NASA's flicker account. It is an individual reposting NASA's public domain photos.

  16. Re:Fuck you apple by Cochonou · · Score: 1

    You could also use one of the gazillion of apps that exist for flickr on iPad.