reply to post by Miccey
You can't just point Hubble at the moon - well you can but it's pretty pointless, it's set up to look much much further away than that... And I'm
yet to be convinced that a spy satellite can 'ready the side of a coke can' - I think the maximum resolution is in the 30 or 40 cm squared range,
meaning that it probably wouldn't see the can any way.
And this Jap probe is the most powerful yet I think - so it's not surprising it's coming up with new stuff.
200 foot diameter hole found on the Moon's surface, page 2
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reply posted on 26-10-2009 @ 04:36 PM by ArMaP
reply to post by DownUnderoid
Most of the best photos on Google Earth that are not from aeroplanes have the same resolution as the ones from LCROSS, near 1 metre per pixel.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a higher resolution, 0.25 metres per pixel.
Most of the best photos on Google Earth that are not from aeroplanes have the same resolution as the ones from LCROSS, near 1 metre per pixel.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a higher resolution, 0.25 metres per pixel.
reply posted on 26-10-2009 @ 11:01 PM by BlubberyConspiracy
reply to post by jra
So, how does that answer that we get the blurry low res images, while they keep the good ones?
So, how does that answer that we get the blurry low res images, while they keep the good ones?
You go first 
reply posted on 27-10-2009 @ 08:51 AM by ngchunter
Originally posted by DownUnderoid
Oh ok...thanks for clearing that up, so in other words we'll NEVER be able to see a clear picture of the Moon's surface?
These pictures are in the same ballpark as google's satellite imagery, not to be confused with google's aerial imagery:
wms.lroc.asu.edu...
They look incredibly clear to me. If by "clear picture" you mean millimeter resolution, you'll have to wait until we land on the moon again and start doing surface imagery; that's your best chance for millimeter resolution lol.
[edit on 27-10-2009 by ngchunter]
reply posted on 27-10-2009 @ 08:55 AM by ArMaP
reply to post by DownUnderoid
It depends on what you mean by "clear picture".
We have the Apollo missions photos, those taken on the ground show a clear picture, some of the ones taken during descent also show a clear picture. The mapping camera photos also show a clear picture of the Moon's surface, specially the ones available on the Apollo Image Archive, that are being converted in high quality digital images.
We have the Clementine photos with a resolution of 100 and 10 metres per pixel, that although not much show a good picture of the Moon's surface, and in the case of the 100 metres per pixel images, they show almost the whole of the Moon.
And now we have LCROSS photos, with a resolution around 1 metre per pixel (better than most Google Earth photos), and those show a clear picture of the Moon surface, I have seen many things in those images that I had never seen in older photos.
It depends on what you mean by "clear picture".
We have the Apollo missions photos, those taken on the ground show a clear picture, some of the ones taken during descent also show a clear picture. The mapping camera photos also show a clear picture of the Moon's surface, specially the ones available on the Apollo Image Archive, that are being converted in high quality digital images.
We have the Clementine photos with a resolution of 100 and 10 metres per pixel, that although not much show a good picture of the Moon's surface, and in the case of the 100 metres per pixel images, they show almost the whole of the Moon.
And now we have LCROSS photos, with a resolution around 1 metre per pixel (better than most Google Earth photos), and those show a clear picture of the Moon surface, I have seen many things in those images that I had never seen in older photos.
reply posted on 27-10-2009 @ 05:18 PM by ArMaP
reply to post by jra
You're right, I should have said LRO, all those letters are starting to create an alphabet soup inside my head.
And thanks for the information about the newest photos, I haven't been following them as close as I wanted for the last weeks.
You're right, I should have said LRO, all those letters are starting to create an alphabet soup inside my head.
And thanks for the information about the newest photos, I haven't been following them as close as I wanted for the last weeks.
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