Missing Lunar Orbiter Tapes Found, page 23

reply to post by zorgon

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Can someone point out a satelite that can carry 48,000 lbs of 70mm tape for me?

Originally posted by Maxmars
reply to post by Dr. X

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Here's to much success to you and your colleagues in your efforts! Hope we can see them soon, unless NASA can cook up a reason not to share *sigh*.

MM

Thanks for the good wishes MM. It will be some time though. The reason is that the tape run time is about 50 minutes per tape and with handling, figure one hour. There are about 2,000 tapes so that is a "man year" of work. This is because only one drive is operational at the moment. There is a possibility that another one will be brought up in the near future if funding can be acquired, in which case the time could be compressed to about 6 months. In any case the data will be made public I am sure. This is because NASA's policy is that the raw data is public, but any value added can be charged for. So, presumably, one will be able to download the reconstructed images for free (if you have the bandwidth), but the LORP could sell the raw data on some media as digitization and media is value added.

~ Dr. X ~

reply to post by tep200377

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The tapes are data that was transmitted from the Lunar Orbiters.

reply to post by rocksarerocks

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So far the release of images from Kaguya has been very limited. It remains to be seen what will be made public from Chandayran.

3 or 4 days ago I saw a new news story about this restoration project that talks about it a little more. I originally saw it on either CNN or FOX (can't remember which) under the science/space section.. I found the story on another couple sites. All of them are either dated 13 or 14 November 2008.

NASA unveils lunar image recovery project

New pictures of the moon discovered

Restoring the Moon: Lunar Orbiter Images Recovered

The homepage for this official NASA-AMES image restoration project is HERE

-ChriS

UPDATE:

New Video about the tapes...

I'm becoming a little angry about that LOIRP:

They're doing a great job! Thank you!

BUT

Until now they posted only a little little box, at 100% resolution, on their site, inside this image only:

images.spaceref.com...

And the datail level it's amazing, as you can see.
At that resolution, artifacts (human or not) will be clearly visible, exactly what we dreamd of for a very long time.....

BUT

"LOIRP Note: We will be putting the full resolution version of this image on the NASA Lunar Science Institute website with the layers preserved for Photoshop for all you folks to have fun with! We only ask that you send us copies of what you do and credit us if you publish it anywhere."

NASA?

The airbrushing specialists?

Not to an idependent entity (too)?

Wow! what a goal!

All this work done, restoring what probably is *the only untouched source material from the moon* (due to the exotic type of analog recording used)....

....And then you send all to.......NOTHING ?

Not need to say that until now NOTHING is present on that obscure nasa site they mentioned.....

lunarscience.arc.nasa.gov...

And, even if someday some scarce information will surface on that corporation's site, surely it will be not much more affordable than all the past nasa lunar production.

[edit on 23-6-2009 by mystr]

Here's the update links for the McMoon(Dennis Wingo) tapes now called,
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) with new pictures.
at,
Moon Views June 22,2009

and,
LOIRP Images NASA



Zelong.


[edit on 23/6/09 by Zelong]

Originally posted by DJM8507
I don't understand. I saw on the news how the video was transmitted in super high quality to Australia, then to California, then to Houston. They also claim the tapes are lost forever.

See link below, check out last page. The Original signals of the first Moon Landing were sent back to Earth via SSB. They were Slo-Scan. They were NOT super high quality, nor full frame. Those signals were converted (transcoded) to American standard 525 NTSC.

Doesn't this thread prove that the original moon landing tapes exist? Or are these other tapes and not of the original moon landing?

THIS thread deals with "Lunar Orbiter" tapes. They were unmanned and sent to map out potential landing sites PRIOR to Apollo.

Would love an update on what is going on with this and why hasn't it been mentioned on the news?

Good info here: www.abovetopsecret.com...

It is being mentioned. MSNBC and Yahoo to name just two. Hope that helps.

Tons of info here: www.honeysucklecreek.net...

Regards...KK


[edit on 17-7-2009 by kinda kurious]

reply to post by DJM8507

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You are most certainly welcome. Many of us are addicted to this stuff.

You also may enjoy this on-going thread:

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Some major brainiacs at work: Zorgon, ArMap, easynow, Phage, Weedwhacker etc.
(self excluded, I'm just a groupie.)

Found this Associated Press video on youtube

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