{"id":124,"date":"2009-03-31T09:40:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T09:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2009\/03\/31\/loirp_in_the_news\/"},"modified":"2009-03-31T09:40:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T09:40:37","slug":"loirp_in_the_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"LOIRP in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old Moon Images Get Modern Makeover<\/a>, Fox
\nOld Moon Images Get Modern Makeover<\/a>, LiveScience
\n“Dennis Wingo, LOIRP’s team leader, detailed the group’s work in progress during last week’s 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Teamed with SpaceRef.com, LOIRP’s saga is one of acquiring the last surviving Ampex FR-900 machinery that can play analog image data from the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft. Wingo noted that the work is backed by NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, the space agency’s Innovative Partnership Program, along with private organizations, making it possible to overhaul old equipment, digitally upgrade and clean-up the imagery via software. LOIRP is located at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. There, project members are taking the analog data, converting it into digital form and reconstructing the images. By moving them into the digital domain, Wingo said, the photos now offer a higher dynamic range and resolution than the original pictures, he added. “We’re going to be releasing these to the whole world,” Wingo said. Use of the refreshed images, contrasted to what NASA’s upcoming Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission is slated to produce, has an immediate scientific benefit. That is, what is the frequency of impacts on the Moon’s already substantially crater-pocked surface? “We’ll be able to get crater counts,” Wingo told SPACE.com. “LRO imagery of the same terrain imaged decades ago will provide a crater count over the last 40 years.”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Old Moon Images Get Modern Makeover, Fox Old Moon Images Get Modern Makeover, LiveScience “Dennis Wingo, LOIRP’s team leader, detailed the group’s work in progress during last week’s 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Teamed with SpaceRef.com, LOIRP’s saga is one of acquiring the last surviving Ampex FR-900 machinery that can play analog image data … <\/p>\n

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