We probably should help Arizona State promote their HDTV scans of these images, even though they are posting them on YouTube. Not enough people are seeing them.
When you think about the resolution of the Narrow Angle Camera, LRO's NAC, not yet at its best, at 0.81 meters per pixel, nothing like this has been seen since the Apollo surface landings. They exceed by orders of magnitude the admittedly outstanding Apollo mapping cameras, which may have imaged only 5 percent of the lunar surface from a much higher orbit during Apollos 15, 16 & 17.
All of which is just an attempt to verbalize what might better be summed up with awed silence, a whistle, or just "Wow!"
A beautiful video! Keep em coming
ReplyDeleteWe probably should help Arizona State promote their HDTV scans of these images, even though they are posting them on YouTube. Not enough people are seeing them.
ReplyDeleteWhen you think about the resolution of the Narrow Angle Camera, LRO's NAC, not yet at its best, at 0.81 meters per pixel, nothing like this has been seen since the Apollo surface landings. They exceed by orders of magnitude the admittedly outstanding Apollo mapping cameras, which may have imaged only 5 percent of the lunar surface from a much higher orbit during Apollos 15, 16 & 17.
All of which is just an attempt to verbalize what might better be summed up with awed silence, a whistle, or just "Wow!"
We will work in it, thanks, Andrew.