{"id":146,"date":"2009-08-10T08:31:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T08:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2009\/08\/10\/loirp_releases_enhanced_restored_version_of_the_image_of_the_century_plus_additional_subframes_of_cr\/"},"modified":"2009-08-10T08:31:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T08:31:56","slug":"loirp_releases_enhanced_restored_version_of_the_image_of_the_century_plus_additional_subframes_of_cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"LOIRP Releases Enhanced Restored Version of the “Image of the Century” Plus Additional Subframes of Crater Copernicus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThis is a re-release of Life Magazine’s “Image of the Century” from 1966. The performance of our hardware and software image processing methods has been significantly enhanced to remove some of the banding artifacts that are derived from imperfections in the spacecraft image scanning hardware. This image of Copernicus crater was taken from a spacecraft altitude of 45 km (27.1 miles) and is approximately 207.7 km (~125 miles) to the center of the image.
\nAn interesting aspect to this image is that with this oblique view, recent impacts of small craters have much more brightness than older craters of the same size. This suggests the value of oblique photography in doing crater aging studies as well as multispectral remote sensing of excavated materials from the craters. You can view a larger version [900 K JPG] of this image on your screen here<\/a>. You can download the full resolution image [505 MB TIFF] here<\/a> at the NLSI.<\/p>\n

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\nYou can see a great deal of detail in this enlarged portion of this image. Larger view<\/a> [2.2 MB JPG]<\/p>\n

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\nThis image is the second subframe of a three subframe set that makes up the high resolution frame LOII-162. This is a nearer field image and the top of this image is the continuation of the bottom of LOII-162-H3. The unnamed interesting crater in the upper left does not show up well in vertical views of this region of the Moon. Direction wise, this scene is southward of the H3 subframe. The light regolith blankets around newer craters are very easy to denote in this image. You can download the full resolution image [758 MB TIFF] here<\/a> at the NLSI.<\/p>\n

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\nYou can see a great deal of detail in this enlarged portion of this image. Larger view<\/a> [1.2 MB JPG]<\/p>\n

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\nThe image LOII-162-H1 completes the three subframe set of the famous image of Copernicus. This oblique view of this region of the Moon shows the northern plains of Tranquility, about 50 kilometers north of the Apollo 11 and 12 landing sites. You can download the full resolution image [2.37 GB TIFF] here<\/a> at the NLSI.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is the medium resolution image of the set of LOII-162. This completes the set of Lunar Orbiter II Frame 162 Images. This image looks north toward Copernicus and was taken with the 8″ camera on the LOII spacecraft. You can download the full resolution image [571 MB tiff] here<\/a> at the NLSI.<\/p>\n

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\nThis image shows the context for the wide angle and narrow angle, high resolution images taken of Copernicus. Larger image<\/a>.
\nThe Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP)<\/a> is located at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA. Funding and support for this project has been provided by NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, NASA Innovative Partnerships Program, NASA Lunar Science Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Odyssey Moon LLC, SkyCorp Inc., and SpaceRef Interactive Inc.
\nFor more information on the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) visit https:\/\/moonviews.wpenginepowered.com<\/a>
\nFor information on NASA’s Lunar Science Institute visit http:\/\/lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov\/<\/a>
\nFor information on NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate visit http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/exploration\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a re-release of Life Magazine’s “Image of the Century” from 1966. The performance of our hardware and software image processing methods has been significantly enhanced to remove some of the banding artifacts that are derived from imperfections in the spacecraft image scanning hardware. This image of Copernicus crater was taken from a spacecraft … <\/p>\n

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