A Half-Gigabyte View of the Moon 112
An anonymous reader writes "A new 24,000-pixel-square half-gigabyte mosaic from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Moon's nearside as never before. The 1,300 black-and-white frames were acquired during a two-week period in December 2010. There is also video of the half gig moon."
Alternate to download... (Score:2, Informative)
Alternative to downloading 500+ MB .tif from overwhelmed server...
Moon [asu.edu]
Re:Resolution (Score:5, Informative)
Not this image.
This is a mosaic from the LROC's wide angle camera. A rough, back-of-the-envelope calculate dividing the diameter of the moon by 24000 pixels suggests a spatial resolution around 140m.
The 0.5m resolution is from the main camera. A 0.5m mosaic of the entire Earth-facing side of the moon would be on the order of 7000000x7000000 not 24000x24000.
Re:Anyone know the location of the moon landings? (Score:4, Informative)
All the interesting stuff is on the far side of the moon. Wonder when they'll release those high-resolution photos...
Like this one [asu.edu] ?
They are all available - I would suggest you start by browsing the gallery [asu.edu].
Re:Two observations (Score:5, Informative)
Crater rows are typically secondary craters (i.e., the stuff splashed out of some larger impact).
Fast, smooth, zooming version at zoom.it (Score:2, Informative)
A zooming version is available at zoom.it [zoom.it]