Originally posted by jra The Lunar Orbiter images are something else entirely. But here's one of the better sites i've found for Lunar
Orbiter images. www.lpi.usra.edu...
Better sites? Hmmmm
I have THAT one...compare their version of LO_III_162 with that John provided at the start of this thread.. You will see MANY differences and an
overall quality difference. Seems certain anomalies are no longer in the LPI image collection....
For the Lunar Orbiter images? As far as I know, the highest was a resolution of 2m in selected areas. I'm not sure if those images are on that site I
linked to or not. Lunar Orbiter images seem to be harder to find. Probably due to not being as popular as the Apollo stuff.
No they are NOT on that site...
No they are as popular, but they do not have them because the high resolution images were taken for the department of defense, not for
astronomers...It is why if you find copies in print BEFORE 1971 you will find anomalies
As far as the resolution here is a quote from the Defense contractor ITT who made the cameras..
On a typical Lunar Orbiter mission, the photographic system provided high-resolution pictures of 4,000 square miles of the Moon's surface with
enough clarity to show objects the size of a card table. At the same time, medium-resolution photographs covering 20,000
square miles could be made with overlap for stereo viewing and analysis of surface topography.
Notice for those who care the following link is a secure link to a Defense Contractor so if you worry about being tracked.... you WILL be
SOURCE
As for .tiff images. I don't think they ever saved them in that format. And I never said they were available in that format either. I just said that
all the images themselves are available.
I do not believe you said they were, however I KNOW they do have them as I have several of them... and one they even posted was the one with the
"rolling rocks" The .tiffs are available to scientists and someone in the thread some time back posted a link to a different file format were some
were available I will have to look it up... And I have those sites and many more... I will add a full list of image resources to my site in the next
few days {There are a LOT to sort through
}
Interesting enough, the site you linked to has several .tiff files in that collection starting at 100 meg to one that is 206 megs... To bad they are
of Earth though
Now THATS the size I am talking about
Here's the direct link, it's fairly large (about 1mb). eol.jsc.nasa.gov...
I meg is small 30 meg .tiff is usually what I call high resolution
Thank you for finding that one... Its amazing how washed out it is considering its high res...
I would think this would be the same for the one you cropped out. My first conclusion would not to assume it's a "compound" that's for
sure.
Well thats the thing about this one though, you don't have to think anything about my "cropped" image. Anyone can simply open the high res one I
linked to at NASA and simply zoom in and see it themselves. If a rectangular and shaded "anomaly" of that size looks like small craters to you...
well...
And just because its labeled "compound" as thats what it reminds me of doesn't mean I assume its a compound. I have no idea what it is, I just know
its NOT a natural rock formation
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