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#1  Postby Macdoc » Jun 18, 2018 2:13 am

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Since 2007 the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project has brought back 2000 images from 1500 analog tapes. The first ever picture of an earthrise. As Keith Cowing said “an image taken a quarter of a fucking million miles away in 1966. The Beatles were warming up to play Shea Stadium at the moment it was being taken.” To find more of those images go to their website, but I warn you those images are huge.


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#2  Postby theropod » Jun 18, 2018 4:36 am

Oh hell yes!

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#3  Postby aban57 » Jun 18, 2018 1:27 pm

Is it "just" digital remaster, or are the old images digitally mixed with more recent ones ?
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#4  Postby newolder » Jun 18, 2018 1:30 pm

... and what has a recent image of the Occator crater on asteroid Ceres got to do with the Apollo Moon missions? :ask:
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#5  Postby Mike_L » Jun 18, 2018 1:40 pm

aban57 wrote:Is it "just" digital remaster, or are the old images digitally mixed with more recent ones ?


They've just spruced up the fakes that were created with miniatures a few decades ago! Those originals were made deliberately blurry in order to conceal imperfections in the models. With some digital dickery they can now sharpen the pictures without revealing the joins, blobs of glue, etc. on the model sets.

:conspiracy:

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Seriously, though...
I think it's mostly a case of applying noise reduction to enhance clarity.
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#6  Postby aban57 » Jun 18, 2018 1:47 pm

That's what I thought. It would be interesting to compare the result to recent pictures.
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#7  Postby laklak » Jun 18, 2018 3:49 pm

The Reptilian Overlords are releasing some holiday snaps.
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#8  Postby LucidFlight » Jun 18, 2018 4:21 pm

I'm looking forward to the Greatest Hits album.

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#9  Postby laklak » Jun 19, 2018 3:38 am

Better have Probe it! Probe It Good! on it.
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