LRO Team Releases High Res Topographic Map of Moon, page
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Topic started on 18-11-2011 @ 06:35 PM by InTheFlesh1980
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We have a more detailed topographic map of the moon now. On Google Earth I can zoom in on my car on my driveway. Why can't I zoom in on the moon landing sites yet? I mean, with more convincing detail than has been released thus far. The satellites should orbit lower on the moon than the earth, and should be equipped with the best cameras money can buy.



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reply posted on 18-11-2011 @ 06:43 PM by Phage
When you zoom in on your car in your driveway you are zooming in on an image from an airplane, not a satellite.

Here is a satellite image at 0.5m/pixel (the highest resolution of satellite images of Earth allowed for commercial use by the DOD).
geoeyemediaportal.s3.amazonaws.com...

Here is an LROC image of the Apollo 14 landing site at 0.5m/pixel (and there are better available).
www.lroc.asu.edu...

Considering that the descent stage is about 13 feet across
upload.wikimedia.org...

A Chevy Blazer is 14 feet long, what is it that you would expect to see?

The LRO is there to do science, not to prove that man walked on the Moon.
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reply posted on 18-11-2011 @ 09:54 PM by Illustronic
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I believe all of that is referring to the altimeter data, to 'map' the surface to a 3D program. It is not referring to a higher resolution photographic visual image. The instruments involved could be more precise than the photographic tech is, it all depends on the data flow.

They can also 'enhance' the data combined with other spectrographic data among other radioactive measurements of the same area to get a better overall picture of what is there, and that is where the misrepresentation of NASA altering photos comes from. They are only trying to get the best data and resolution of an image that they release to the public with those kinds of added informations to represent what visual photography isn't going to resolve.

You think that is an easy quick imaging process?

That is why images from NASA takes time, the 'camera' doesn't resolve it by itself. Do you think you have a better camera or process to do such things that far away? Show me.


reply posted on 18-11-2011 @ 10:25 PM by InTheFlesh1980
Originally posted by Phage
When you zoom in on your car in your driveway you are zooming in on an image from an airplane, not a satellite.

Here is a satellite image at 0.5m/pixel (the highest resolution of satellite images of Earth allowed for commercial use by the DOD).
geoeyemediaportal.s3.amazonaws.com...

Here is an LROC image of the Apollo 14 landing site at 0.5m/pixel (and there are better available).
www.lroc.asu.edu...

Considering that the descent stage is about 13 feet across
upload.wikimedia.org...

A Chevy Blazer is 14 feet long, what is it that you would expect to see?

The LRO is there to do science, not to prove that man walked on the Moon.
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Phage, thanks for posting the pictures for comparison. The Apollo 14 landing site at 0.5m/pixel is compelling, but is it convincing?

My point is that since NASA knows that the moon landings have been a source of speculative doubt for 40 years, I am hoping that at some point in the near future it will all be put to rest with some form of irrefutable evidence.

That way, as the other poster was so kind as to inform me, Colonel Aldrin can stop peeping in my windows.


reply posted on 18-11-2011 @ 10:43 PM by Phage
reply to post by InTheFlesh1980

There is plenty of "irrefutable evidence". It's just that it is ignored in favor of looking for pointless little "gotchas" by the hoax believers.

I would prefer that NASA does what it is supposed to do. Learn about our universe and the place of humans in it.


reply posted on 18-11-2011 @ 10:55 PM by Phage
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Actually the new DEM (digital elevation model) was produced from images from the wide angle camera along with data from the laser altimeter. Those images are of much lower resolution than the images from the narrow angle camera as is the DEM.
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reply posted on 19-11-2011 @ 06:50 AM by iforget
reply to post by Illustronic


Ok I guess I though that the OP refereed to the apparent lack of detail in the topomap as presented and being able to zoom in on that to see features with greater detail. My point was to show that this was the first version of the map and refinements are on the way.





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