Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by All Seeing Eye

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Firstly....it's Google Earth!!! (Moon)

Secondly....it's Google Earth!!! (Moon)

You see nothing but flaws in their image "stitching" program.

You cannot use Google Earth (Moon...or Mars) and expect to make any serious "study" out of it.......

The basemap mosaic is a radiometrically and geometrically controlled, photometrically modeled global mosaicked Lunar Digital Image Model (LDIM) in sinusoidal equal-area projection. It was compiled using more than 43,000 images from the 750 nanometer filter observations from the Ultraviolet/Visible camera onboard the Clementine Spacecraft. (The 900 nanometer filter was used to fill gaps where there was missing 750 coverage.)

All 88 CD-ROM volumes of the Clementine raw image collection are available at NSSDC. These disks are arranged by Clementine orbit number, with 3 to 5 orbits contained per CD, starting with orbit 32, the beginning of the lunar mapping phase. An index of the orbits and locations of the coverage for each CD is available. The raw images from all imaging sensors (UV/Visible, Near IR, Long-Wavelength IR, High Resolution, and Star Tracker cameras) will be included for each orbit.

LRO will spend at least a year in a low polar orbit approximately 50 kilometers (31 miles) above the lunar surface, while its seven instruments find safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment and test new technology.

If not mistaken, which sometimes happens to the best of us, the photos I present came from the Japanese Lunar orbiter KAGUYA (SELENE) data archives, not NASA.

These are High Definition photos incorporated into Google Earth / Moon of the Apollo 15 lunar landing site.. They are not stitched together in the traditional manner.

Below is the area of capture from a HD Japanese camera in question. The zoom in ability is quite remarkable.

The "seem" in this view is a slight discoloration and not a distinct line.

To keep its context I have included views at different zoom levels so the viewer can follow the decent and notice where the HD seem is.

One of the Anomalous lines starts to come into view.

Now the anomalous line is in full view with orientation to the HD seam line.

Now in its final zoom you can see it has nothing to do with any seem lines.

For more information on the Japanese HD filming process (Which by the way I believe uses filming processes that do not include haphazard human "hairs") please follow this link.

JAXA released data from the lunar explorer "KAGUYA" (SELENE) (L2 products) during the nominal operation phase (from December 21, 2007 to October 31, 2008) to the public through the Internet.

L2 products are calibrated/validated processed data from KAGUYA science mission instruments. By using the L2 products, researchers all over the world are expected to advance the scientific analysis and applicability investigation of the moon.

KAGUYA taking around the landing site of the Apollo 15 by HDTV

One of the main challenges in mosaic production is ensuring the mosaic is seamless. That is, one cannot easily discern where the edges of the input images are. This can be challenging for a number of reasons. One of the most difficult aspects involves the input image geometry. Because the input images have different perspective centers, the geometry of surface objects will vary between images.

BUT, it has relevance to the images of ALIEN planets, doesn't it?? Even if there are no buildings...you still see seams.....