{"id":179,"date":"2009-12-11T13:42:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T13:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2009\/12\/11\/the_boulders_of_copernicus\/"},"modified":"2009-12-11T13:42:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T13:42:03","slug":"the_boulders_of_copernicus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"The Boulders of Copernicus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/nasawatch.com\/images\/LOV_152_H1.copernicus.l.jpg\" target = \"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nasawatch.com\/images\/LOV_152_H1.copernicus.m.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a> <\/div>\n<p><P><br \/>\nThis image represents a portion of the central uplift within the crater Copernicus.  The image, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpi.usra.edu\/resources\/lunarorbiter\/frame\/?5152\">LOV-152-H1<\/a>, was taken by Lunar Orbiter V on 16 August 1967 at an altitude of 103 km. The spacecraft was looking straight down at the crater as it snapped this picture series. The resolution of this image is 2.2 meters\/pixel. [Click on image to enlarge]<br \/>\nBelow, you can see the increase in contrast and resolution that LOIRP has attained when you compare the high resolution USGS image (left) and the one obtained by LOIRP on 10 December 2009 (right). [Click on image to enlarge]<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nasawatch.com\/images\/LOV_152_H1.compare.l.jpg\" target = \"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nasawatch.com\/images\/LOV_152_H1.compare.m.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image represents a portion of the central uplift within the crater Copernicus. The image, LOV-152-H1, was taken by Lunar Orbiter V on 16 August 1967 at an altitude of 103 km. The spacecraft was looking straight down at the crater as it snapped this picture series. The resolution of this image is 2.2 meters\/pixel. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Boulders of Copernicus&#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":[28,9,27,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boulders","category-images","category-loirp","category-lunar-orbiter-5-v-or-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}