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Originally posted by Exuberant1
Apollo 17 EVA - Astronaut and genius Jack Schmitt tries to blow dust off of the camera lens... with his mouth.... Through his helmet.
Originally posted by Fromabove
While reading the transcripts on descent and landing, they mention "atmospheric drag" on the craft.
Originally posted by easynow
reply to post by ArMaP
This false-color image of Earth was taken from 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the lunar surface was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. (Credit: NASA/JPL/Brown)
This composite image depicts the moon's rugged south polar region in two lights. The black and white image on the left is a computer generated view of the pole from radar reflectance data. The color image on the right is a topographic map of that same area. The color image on the right is the highest resolution topography map to date of the moon's south pole. It was generated by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., using data collecetd using the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar located in California's Mojave Desert. The new map provides contiguous topographic detail over a region approximately 500 kilometers by 400 kilometers (311 miles by 249 miles).
www.nasa.gov...
On a standard large-scale topographic map, the colors used and the features each represent are:
a. Black. Indicates cultural (man-made) features such as buildings and roads, surveyed spot elevations, and all labels.
b. Red-Brown. The colors red and brown are combined to identify cultural features, all relief features, non-surveyed spot elevations, and elevation, such as contour lines on red-light readable maps.
c. Blue. Identifies hydrography or water features such as lakes, swamps, rivers, and drainage.
d. Green. Identifies vegetation with military significance, such as woods, orchards, and vineyards.
e. Brown. Identifies all relief features and elevation, such as contours on older edition maps, and cultivated land on red-light readable maps.
f. Red. Classifies cultural features, such as populated areas, main roads, and boundaries, on older maps.
g. Other. Occasionally other colors may be used to show special information. These are indicated in the marginal information as a rule.
Color may carry standardized meanings in particular applications. Common physiographic maps are a good example: blue = water bodies, green = vegetation, brown = desert/mountains, white = ice or snow, etc. A standard color scheme is often used on geological maps: green = Cretaceous, yellow = Quaternary, etc.
Here is an excerpt from an Apollo 14 EVA where the astronaut driving the rover jokes that he has air brakes - perhaps implying that he is experiencing drag as he passes through that rich, clear lunar atmosphere...
Originally posted by Exuberant1
Apollo 17 EVA - Astronaut and genius Jack Schmitt tries to blow dust off of the camera lens... with his mouth.... Through his helmet.
Originally posted by mcrom901
"Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles!" - Captain Haddock
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by mcrom901
Ummm....what exactly is this supposed to prove?
*snip*...... it doesn't mean he's "faking" it and not in a real vacuum...)
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Exuberant1
I would have thought everyone would have realized these basics by now....
Originally posted by ocker
reply to post by Exuberant1
great post exuberant1
thought I should go out and get the Inigo swann's book you mentioned.
Ocker
[edit on 25/10/2009 by ocker]
Those missing hours are not missing in the Technical Air-To-Ground Voice Transcription. Apparently, that Technical Air-To-Ground Voice Transcription has more information than the On-board Voice Transcription.
Originally posted by Exuberant1
...Four Hours Missing from the DSE Black Box (right where we expected missing time to be found according to your recent work):
However, there is alot of time and words missing from these transcripts.