Lunar Orbiter
The Lunar Orbiter missions of the 1960's returned a wealth of detailed lunar images, including most of the Moon's nearside. Images were taken nearly simultaneously with a Medium Resolution and a High Resolution camera. The preceding link details on-line sources of the images. A reasonable number of them have been calibrated for viewing/study with LTVT.
- Images taken with the Lunar Orbiter High Resolution camera have traditionally been displayed divided into three segments. In LTVT, the images can be better appreciated by re-assembling them into their original format. The Lunar Orbiter Composites page on this Wiki provides downloadable versions in this format, along with complete LTVT calibration information for each.
- Here is additional calibration data for some of the images taken with the Lunar Orbiter Medium Resolution Camera for which high resolution scans are available from the USGS Lunar Orbiter Digitization Project website. Because image resolution is proportional to camera distance, some of the "medium" resolution views taken from low altitude actually show finer surface detail than do some "high" resolution views taken from a much greater distance.
- LunarOrbiter_MedResCamera_Calibrations.txt (8 kb; 12 Jun 2008)
- LunarOrbiter_MedResCamera_URL_list.txt _(5 kb; 12 Jun 2008)_These two files can be used in conjunction with the LTVT Image Grabber to automatically retrieve the images from the web. They will need to be decompressed and converted from TIFF to JPEG format (the LTVT-readable format specified in the cal file).
- The date, time and spacecraft positions appearing in all the Lunar Orbiter calibrations provided on this Wiki were obtained from the LPI's transcription of Table 2 from Bowker and Hughes, or from the much more complete tabulation of Lunar Orbiter support data in NSSDC 71-13 by Anderson and Miller (1971), or, in a few cases, from the alternative support data in TWP-70-047 (1970) on the LPI website.
- The support data from the Bowker and Hughes list is also available on this Wiki in a simple Excel spreadsheet format.
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JimMosher on Jun 20, 2008 1:00 pm