I wonder why they parked the rover so far away? ALSEP being so far away makes sense.-NA
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/lro-briefing-20110906.htmlThis allows full coverage of the surface by LROC's Wide Angle Camera.
Then we head into the GRAIL launch. Good week for Moon news
Absolutely stunning. I don't like rehashing press releases, but I can beef this up (as much as this is amazing stuff on its own) with the protection of the hertigage sites which was recently presented at the Staff Senior meeting.
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 09/07/2011 01:25 amAbsolutely stunning. I don't like rehashing press releases, but I can beef this up (as much as this is amazing stuff on its own) with the protection of the hertigage sites which was recently presented at the Staff Senior meeting.looking forward to that discussion thread.
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Neat! I wonder if they have higher resolution images of Shepard and Mitchell's footsteps missing the rim of Cone Crater. Prior images showed them about 30 meters short, and to the right.
Quote from: Blackstar on 09/06/2011 04:20 pmhttp://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/lro-briefing-20110906.htmlThis allows full coverage of the surface by LROC's Wide Angle Camera. So there's sub-meter resolution imagery now available for some significant fraction of the lunar surface? Including the far side? Where can we get it?!?!P.S.: A quick calculation indicates that, at 11-bit radiometric depth, complete coverage of the surface at 1 meter resolution would need some 52 terabytes of storage. Reduce that to 25 cm resolution and you need 800 terabytes, compress it and get maybe 500 terabytes. Formidable but nothing today's hardware couldn't handle.