{"id":175,"date":"2009-12-07T22:01:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T22:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2009\/12\/07\/seeing_boulders_on_the_moon\/"},"modified":"2009-12-07T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T22:01:16","slug":"seeing_boulders_on_the_moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Boulders on The Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nasawatch.com\/images\/LOII_91_H_f323.l.jpg\" target = \"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nasawatch.com\/images\/LOII_91_H_f323.m.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<em>[Click on image to enlarge]<\/em><strong> Keith&#8217;s note:<\/strong> Tonight we are testing out our newest Mac computer at the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project located at NASA ARC. We&#8217;ll be using this machine (8 processors and 10 TB of storage) to do near-real time processing of imagery once we have pulled it off of original Lunar Orbiter analog data tapes using our restored FR-900 tape drives.  We hope to do a live webcast this coming Thursday so that you can look over our shoulders as we bring another image to light for the first time in more than 40 years.<br \/>\nTonight, as we were flying through a portion of one of the images we came across a boulder field. Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpi.usra.edu\/resources\/lunarorbiter\/frame\/?2091\">image archive<\/a> at LPI &#8211; subframe H3, Framelet 323. The image was taken by Lunar Orbiter II on 20 Nov 1966 at an altitude of 52.2 miles with a ground resolution of 1.14 meters\/pixel. The framelet image shown here is approximately 220 meters across. You can clearly make out a number of boulders around 1 meter in size sitting on the surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click on image to enlarge] Keith&#8217;s note: Tonight we are testing out our newest Mac computer at the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project located at NASA ARC. We&#8217;ll be using this machine (8 processors and 10 TB of storage) to do near-real time processing of imagery once we have pulled it off of original Lunar &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=175\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seeing Boulders on The Moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,9,27,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boulders","category-images","category-loirp","category-lunar-orbiter","category-lunar-orbiter-2-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}