Dec 192016
 

This is an interesting article, not at all filled with craziness:

Rogue scientists revive lost moon photos inside abandoned McDonald’s

It tells the story of how a few people kept data that NASA planned to toss, in the form of old, unreadable videotapes with Lunar Orbiter imagery, and how those tapes were eventually re-read and re-processed to bring out much more data and vastly better imagery… images that rival the best of modern lunar photography.

It is described in greater detail at Wikipedia:

Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project

And the official, though now no longer updated, website of the project:

http://www.moonviews.com/

And at last, the image gallery :

https://loirp.arc.nasa.gov/loirp_gallery/

Note: I keep getting a “high rez files are being migrated to a new repository” message…

 Posted by at 11:16 am