This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 3081_H3, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 3 on 17 February 1967 at 21:09 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
Lunar Orbiter 3 Image 3081_H3
LOIRP Status Report 21 August 2013
Dennis WIngo: Well, can’t resist continuing on. Running G5-003 right now. Looking good so far. There are two tapes in this sequence so I am going to do both of them today.
G5-003, partial capture LOV-008H, 006M
One thing that I am very much looking forward to is to assemble an image and make a photographic print of one of these full moon pictures of the far side of the Moon. With the greater dynamic range of our grey scales, these images should look spectacular!
End of Day
Well, can’t resist continuing on. Running G5-003 right now. Looking good so far. There are two tapes in this sequence so I am going to do both of them today.
G5-003, partial capture LOV-008H, 006M
One thing that I am very much looking forward to is to assemble an image and make a photographic print of one of these full moon pictures of the far side of the Moon. With the greater dynamic range of our grey scales, these images should look spectacular!
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project In The News
This Week in Photography History: The Lunar Orbiter 1 Takes the First Photograph of the Earth from the Moon, The Phoblographer
It was originally designed to photograph the smooth lunar landscape. The images it took would then be parsed for ideal landing locations for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. The Lunar Orbiter 1 was the first American spacecraft to orbit the moon, and it was the first of five spacecraft in the Lunar Orbiter program that was operated between 1966 and 1967. The Surveyor program followed between 1966 and 1968, and the manned Apollo flights followed later from 1968 to 1972.
Abandoned McDonald’s Houses NASA’s Lunar Photo Project [Pics]
Lunar Orbiter 3 Image 3081_H2
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 3081_H2, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 3 on 17 February 1967 at 21:09 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
LOIRP Status Report 20 August 2013
Dennis Wingo: I couldn’t help it. We needed to know the sequences in the tapes for Goldstone as the sequence numbers that we have used forever are missing. So, I ran the first Lunar Orbiter V Goldstone tape today with the nearly dead head. It worked pretty well. So it was captured and one more high res image down!
G5-001, partial capture LOV-006H (90 framelets)
We got almost a complete high res image and I can now figure out what sequence number it is from (002) and thus know what is coming next and how that fits with the Woomera data that we already have.
End of day update. G4-001 looked pretty good and there are two tapes in that sequence. Soooo….
G5-002, complete capture LOV-005H
Note that image 005H is the lowest numbered high resolution frame for Lunar Orbiter V. The Goldstone captures started three days before the Woomera ones for some reason so it bears to reason that for a while Goldstone has images that don’t exist with the tapes we have already run. I may run another tape or two just to see how far I can go before the head completely dies, that is, if the image quality is still good.
Lunar Orbiter 3 Image 3081_H1
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 3081_H1, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 3 on 17 February 1967 at 21:09 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project In The News
Abandoned McDonald’s Holds Glimpse of Life on Moon, BloombergBusinessWeek
In this installment of Secret Valley, Bloomberg Businessweek’s Ashlee Vance visits NASA’s Ames Research Center where a forgotten McDonald’s, nicknamed “McMoon’s,” serves as the headquarters for a project to digitize fifty year old photographs of the surface of the moon.
Video Offers a Glimpse Into NASA’s Film Digitization Efforts in an Old McDonald’s, PetaPixel
In July of last year, we introduced you to the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP), an effort by the NASA Ames Research Center to digitize some 48,000 pounds of 70mm tape shot by the five lunar orbiters that were sent up to photograph the surface of the moon in preparation for the Apollo missions.
Priceless moon photos getting processed at an old McDonald’s, Houston Chronicle
Near the Ames Research Center in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, a team funded by NASA is in the process of digitizing photos taken of the moon in the 1960s. These are pictures of the moon before men touched down, taken from five lunar orbiters that shot footage of it in preperation of exploration. Where they are doing it is the best part. The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) has been hard at work since July 2008 inside an old McDonald’s location on the Ames campus converting 48,000 pounds of 70mm tape.
Lunar Orbiter 3 Image 3079_H2
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 3079_H2, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 3 on 17 February 1967 at 14:12 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
Crater Wargo
NASA Asks International Astronomical Union to Name Lunar Crater After Mike Wargo
“NASA is asking the International Astronomical Union to name a crater on the moon in his honor “so his name will be forever enshrined in the heavens.”
– NASA Lunar Exploration Analysis Group Statement on the Passing of Dr. Michael Wargo, earlier post
– Mike Wargo, earlier post
Lunar Orbiter 3 Image 3079_H1
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 3079_H1, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 3 on 17 February 1967 at 14:12 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
Lunar Orbiter 3 Image 3065_H3
This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 3065_H3, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 3 on 16 February 1967 at 17:19 GMT LPI reference. Images: [large at LOIRP] [Very Large at NASA NLSI]
Video: Abandoned McDonald’s Holds Glimpse of Life on Moon
August 15 (Bloomberg) — In this installment of Secret Valley, Bloomberg Businessweek’s Ashlee Vance visits NASA’s Ames Research Center where a forgotten McDonald’s, nicknamed “McMoon’s,” serves as the headquarters for a project to digitize fifty year old photographs of the surface of the moon. (Source: Bloomberg)