Panoramic Photos From The Apollo Missions

Ant writes "This link lets you experience the moon just as the Apollo missions' astronauts did -- almost as you were there -- with QuickTime panorama views. Less known is that during all the missions they made image sequences which with todays computer technics can be stitched together into 360-degree interactive panoramas giving you the possibility to view the moon almost as you were there. Many of these panoramas have been published before, but in low resolution and displayed in small sizes. During the last year the original films have been rescanned in large resolution and the Apollo 11 images were released the week before the 35 year anniversary."

Better Make Sure...

[dcigary]

....they don't violate The IPIX Patent [virtualproperties.com]

NYUD Links

[bucklesl]

Already slow...

http://www.panoramas.dk.nyud.net:8090/fullscreen3/ f29.html [nyud.net]

Re:Another few years...

[Anonymous Coward]

um... NASA's budget went up... Not by much but it did go up

Re:But, we never went to the moon

[Vodka-in-a-can]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_b elt#The_Van_Allen_Belt.27s_Impact_on_Space_Travel Im more inclined to believe wikipedia then you.

Re:But, we never went to the moon

[eingram]

You're probably just a troll, but you bring up some of the most common and worst arguments against the Apollo missions.

For those interested, Bad Astronomy [badastronomy.com] has some good explanations and links. Not that it matters, because if you believe we didn't land on the Moon, then hard facts arn't going to change your mind. :)

Also, if the missions were faked, the Russians would have called us out since they were our biggest (and only) competition to the Moon.

Blame Canada!

[Morris Schneiderman]

"it took NASA only 7 years" because they hired many of the engineers and middle managers that had been fired by Avrow in Toronto when the new Canadian government cancelled production of the Avrow Arrow jet fighter.

Those guys had considerable experience pushing aerospace technology. In 1949 (yes, you read that correctly) they completed construction and successfully flew a 40 passenger jet airplane with a range of 1400 miles and an air speed of 427 mph.

The Avro Arrow jet fighter first flew in July, 1952 (yes, you read that right, too). It was a fully armoured, mach 2.0 fighter jet.

Other projects COMPLETED by their engineering department included:

1955 Small subsonic jet transport (business jet) 1955 VTOL fighter project 1956 Long range jet transport 1957 P-13 anti-missile missile 1958 Monorail 1958 Supersonic cheap interceptor missile 1958 Ballistic drag re-entry vehicle 1958 Space threshold vehicle 1959 Supersonic trans-atlantic transport studies

Now you know why "it took NASA only 7 years" - and why they could not do it again today.

torrent

[lemist]

I made a torrent through exeem, exeem://47/8a75d11fba5c29e351dd4046b45de1bcfd62c55 a/Apollo11.zip
Sorry about it not being a link, something wasn't working right with it, so just copy and paste.

Re:But, we never went to the moon

[Anonymous Coward]

It's an automated camera. Amazing what technology they had in those days! Lucky that, otherwise they would have had to leave a cameraman behind to die :-)

Actually, it wasn't automated. It was manipulated manually by an operator at mission control on earth. It was not an easy job because he had to account for the signal transmission delay. This was noted in the excellent series "From the Earth to the Moon."

Re:Stars?

[uberdave]

Yes, he does talk funny. His speech synthesizer gives him an American accent. [hawking.org.uk]

Apollo Science discoveries

[soldeed]

Some Claim we got nothing from the apollo program. For them I direct your attention to theTop 10 Apollo scientific discoveries [si.edu]

Video cameras?

[soldeed]

These were made with Hasselblad 70mm still cameras

Apollo Cameras [si.edu]

The astronaut would stand in one spot, take a picture, turn a little, take another, and so on for a full 360 degrees.

Re:Blame Canada!

[isaacwith2as]

It also had the first fly-by-wire system, and the next plane to have similar performance was a Soviet interceptor from the 80's. Way ahead of it's time.

Re:But, we never went to the moon

[alfal]

- It's an automated camera. Amazing what technology they had in those days! Lucky that, otherwise they would have had to leave a cameraman behind to die :-)

Actually, that camera shot was controlled remotely from earth. They only did that once, during the Apollo 17 mission. From what I have read, that poor guy was just a little nervous :).

Re:moon picture quality versus Titan pictures

[pedroloco]

Most of the Apollo pictures of the moon were taken with *film* cameras, not digital cameras. As a general rule, properly exposed film tends to produce higher resolution images than most consumer digital cameras.

As far as the Huygens images go, those images *were* compressed [mps.mpg.de] before they were transmitted.