http://www.historyplace.com/
and we finally have the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) orbiting the Moon and sending back its first images.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_
Several of you folks have been looking up and alerting me to these first images.
Thanks much.
Some have commented about their own blogs and I have added some to the Links I Like at the blog site.
http://kelloggserialreports.
It feels good to know that others are looking up as well.
- LRK -
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NASA's LRO Spacecraft Sends First Lunar Images to Earth
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jul/HQ_09-152_LROC_images.html
GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23. The spacecraft has two cameras -- a low resolution Wide Angle Camera and a high resolution Narrow Angle Camera. Collectively known as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, they were activated June 30. The cameras are working well and have returned images of a region a few kilometers east of Hell E crater in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium.
As the moon rotates beneath LRO, LROC gradually will build up photographic maps of the lunar surface. To view these first calibration images, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/lro
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[Copied the post below as well. - LRK -]
Some of you sent me this link from SpaceRef.com
First Moon Images From NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=31681
And from the NASA link:
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LRO's First Moon Images
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc_20090702_a.html
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted its first images since reaching the moon on June 23. The spacecraft's two cameras, collectively known as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, were activated June 30. The cameras are working well and have returned images of a region in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds).
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If you like looking at images and YouTube clips you might take a look at the blog:
Moon Base Omega
http://moonbaseomega.blogspot.com/
I wonder how long we will be able to use the data that is received from LRO?
Remember how the Pioneer Mission Master Data Record tapes were on degrading tapes, transcribed to magneto optical disks, which could only be read on SCSI drives for a DEC Micro Vax, then copied to a laptop and put on CDs, but who can read the CDs because no one has a program to read the old format (except maybe me and Viktor). Hardware changes, software changes. formats change, all really sad that the old passes out of our thoughts and can't be used with the new generation of computers.
Even when you store the data with information as to how it is formatted as was the Lunar Prospector spectrometer data, you would still find it hard to use the data without knowing how to expand the compressed binary numbers, and then you need information on how to convert the binary numbers to analog values you could read.
http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/lunarp/
A link to an interesting interview on a POD Cast with Ray Kurzweil was sent to me by Geoff.
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January 23, 2008 - 12:26 P.M.
In this week's podcast episode, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses why DAISI -- the Document Image and Storage Invention -- wouldn't solve the long-term data archiving problem.
http://a1448.g.akamai.net/7/1448/25138/v0001/compworld.download.akamai.com/25137/stw/stw-daisi-012308b.mp3
Podcast duration: 6 minutes
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That said, let us hope there will be enough people interested in the data we get from the Moon and Mars to keep the data alive in a usable condition that will let new grad students do good work on helping us make use of these new celestial resources.
You may know someone that can "Make It So". :-)
- LRK -
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lrkellogg
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/
GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images since reaching lunar orbit June 23. The spacecraft has two cameras -- a low resolution Wide Angle Camera and a high resolution Narrow Angle Camera. Collectively known as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, they were activated June 30. The cameras are working well and have returned images of a region a few kilometers east of Hell E crater in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium.
As the moon rotates beneath LRO, LROC gradually will build up photographic maps of the lunar surface. To view these first calibration images, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/lro
snip
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[Copied the post below as well. - LRK -]
Some of you sent me this link from SpaceRef.com
First Moon Images From NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
http://www.spaceref.com/news/
And from the NASA link:
------------------------------
LRO's First Moon Images
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted its first images since reaching the moon on June 23. The spacecraft's two cameras, collectively known as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, were activated June 30. The cameras are working well and have returned images of a region in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium (Sea of Clouds).
snip
------------------------------
If you like looking at images and YouTube clips you might take a look at the blog:
Moon Base Omega
http://moonbaseomega.blogspot.
I wonder how long we will be able to use the data that is received from LRO?
Remember how the Pioneer Mission Master Data Record tapes were on degrading tapes, transcribed to magneto optical disks, which could only be read on SCSI drives for a DEC Micro Vax, then copied to a laptop and put on CDs, but who can read the CDs because no one has a program to read the old format (except maybe me and Viktor). Hardware changes, software changes. formats change, all really sad that the old passes out of our thoughts and can't be used with the new generation of computers.
Even when you store the data with information as to how it is formatted as was the Lunar Prospector spectrometer data, you would still find it hard to use the data without knowing how to expand the compressed binary numbers, and then you need information on how to convert the binary numbers to analog values you could read.
http://pds-geosciences.wustl.
A link to an interesting interview on a POD Cast with Ray Kurzweil was sent to me by Geoff.
------------------------------
January 23, 2008 - 12:26 P.M.
In this week's podcast episode, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses why DAISI -- the Document Image and Storage Invention -- wouldn't solve the long-term data archiving problem.
http://a1448.g.akamai.net/7/
Podcast duration: 6 minutes
------------------------------
That said, let us hope there will be enough people interested in the data we get from the Moon and Mars to keep the data alive in a usable condition that will let new grad students do good work on helping us make use of these new celestial resources.
You may know someone that can "Make It So". :-)
- LRK -
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lrkellogg
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