Showing posts with label Apollo 17. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apollo 17. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Exploring the Apollo 17 Site.

This is great, some really hi-res images of the Apollo 17 landing site from the LROC, which is now at its correct 50-kilometer mapping orbit.
Click on the link below.
LROC News System.
















Above; view from the LRV TV camera after lift off.

A Moonwalker Views His Old Stomping Grounds

Sunday, July 19, 2009

LRO.

We're starting to get some hi-res images from LRO now.

Here is a portion near the Apollo 14 landing site in Fra Mauro that I've picked because I love those 'house sized' boulders. I think the crater is over a mile wide.

















Below the Apollo 14 landing site.

















Bottom two, Apollo 17 Spilt rock (Tracey rock) and Panorama taken at the time by the crew.








Credit NASA

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

New images from Apollo Image Archive

Here's some new images from the Apollo Image Archive that I've picked out. Some of my favourite areas.
These are all from the mapping cameras of either Apollo 16 or 15.
They have been cropped and "Shadows/Highlights" (brilliant tool) adjusted in CS3.

Messier craters.

Interesting section of Schröter's Valley.

Hadley Rille; Apollo 15 landing site.

Taurus Littrow; Apollo 17 landing site.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Apollo 17 Landing site, best yet. from 15th Feb 2008.


Below is a nice view taken by the Japanese lunar explorer, KAGUYA (SELENE)

Credit JAXA

Friday, August 31, 2007

Apollo 17 site.

300/2000 frame, 3x TV Barlow.





Thursday, April 13, 2006

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Various from 5th April 2006 Moon

Albategnius-Klein
Aristoteles

Ariadaeus Rille

Rima Hyginus

Theophilus
Littrow
Posidonius

Friday, November 18, 2005

Apollo 17 landing site

Two views of the landing site. The first one taken using a 2x Celestron Barlow and the one below a 4x Imagemate made by BC&F.














Below is a link to a Hubble space telescope picture, for reference:-

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2005/29/images/m/formats/web.jpg

... and the Apollo 17 mapping camera image:-

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS17-M-0597