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Topic: ASU/NASA Apollo Image Archive
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-01-2007 01:43 PM
It's only a digital moon... University partners with NASA to digitize Apollo film quote: If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the 24 astronauts who launched to the Moon almost 40 years ago, returned a tome some 72,000 pages long.And since their journey from the Moon back to the Earth, their collective 36,000 literally-irreplaceable images have remained in deep-freeze storage at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. With only a few exceptions, the majority of the photos seen by the public have been duplicates made from copies of the originals produced by the space agency between 1968 and 1972. And like anyone who has duplicated a copy knows, the result is never as crystal clear as the original. It is with that in mind that Arizona State University has partnered with NASA to scan the space-flown film in an effort to create a new, high-resolution digital archive for both researchers and the general public on the Internet.
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heng44 Member Posts: 3386 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 08-01-2007 02:12 PM
We can only hope they will do the Mercury and Gemini onboard photos as well...Ed |
Matt T Member Posts: 1368 From: Chester, Cheshire, UK Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-01-2007 03:04 PM
i thought this had already been done? Hence the hi-res complete rolls on the Apollo Archive site.Cheers, Matt ------------------ www.spaceracemuseum.com |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-01-2007 03:16 PM
I believe ApolloArchive.com's complete rolls are limited to the Hasselblad frames, whereas this project includes: quote: 600 frames in 35 mm, roughly 20,000 Hasselblad 60 mm frames (color, and black and white), more than 10,000 mapping camera frames and about 4,600 panoramic cam frames.
The resolution is also significantly greater: quote: In raw form, the scans of the Apollo mapping frames, each 4.7 inches square, are 1.3 gigabytes in size.
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Matt T Member Posts: 1368 From: Chester, Cheshire, UK Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-02-2007 02:50 AM
1.3GB - ok, that's going to be pretty sharp Cheers, Matt ------------------ www.spaceracemuseum.com |
space1 Member Posts: 853 From: Danville, Ohio Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 08-02-2007 07:44 AM
quote: Hasselblad 60 mm frames
Presumably they mean *70* mm frames.------------------ John Fongheiser President Historic Space Systems, http://www.space1.com |
webbrass Member Posts: 72 From: Charlottesville, Virginia Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 08-02-2007 09:28 AM
So far there are only five images from Apollo 15 but many more are promised in the future. They're calling the project the Apollo Image Archive. Be warned that these are VERY hi-res and so VERY large. Make sure you've got a lot of bandwidth and/or time if you want to download them. They have them available to view using a Flash Interface as well.Hopefully they'll add images from the surface cameras soon as well as the CM camera. Phil Plait has an article on the site at his Bad Astronomy site as well. |
art540 Member Posts: 432 From: Orange, California USA Registered: Sep 2006
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posted 08-02-2007 09:29 AM
See also www.lpod.org for another comment... |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-02-2007 09:31 AM
quote: Originally posted by space1: Presumably they mean *70* mm frames.
This was a typo in both their release and our article. I have corrected our version. |
E2M Lem Man Member Posts: 846 From: Los Angeles CA. USA Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 08-02-2007 04:24 PM
Can you imagine the Ed White space walk(GT-4) photos digitized? J.M. Busby |