| Piú viste - Before the Moon and Walking on the Moon (partially edited) |
08-Sinus Medii.jpgBruce Crater and Sinus Medii90 visiteCaption NASA originale:"Lunar Orbiter 3 oblique view of Bruce Crater in the foreground and the Sinus Medii Mare plain on the Moon. Bruce crater is 7 Km in diameter and 800 mt deep. Note the wrinkle ridges near the center of the image and the higher highland ridges in the background. The view is looking westward (Lunar Orbiter 3, frame M-84)".
Location & Time Information
Date/Time (UT): 1967-02-18 T 00:35:14
Distance/Range (km): 122 km
Central Latitude/Longitude (deg): +0.80/358.96
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15-T-SchroteriVallis.jpgSchroteri Valley, from Lunar Orbiter 5 (3D)90 visiteOriginal caption:"Stereoscopic view of a part of Schroter's Valley, the meandering depression running from the upper right to the lower left corner of the anaglyph. This rille is about 7 Km wide and up to 1300 m deep. Within its flat floor is a second, sinuous rille whose tightly packed meandor loops are about 200 m deeper. The ridge that is seen in the upper left portion of the photograph is about 1600 m higher than the plateau surface into which the Valley is cut".
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APOLLO 8 Re-Entry.jpgS69-15592 - The re-entry of Apollo 890 visiteThe final sightings, both deliberate and accidental, of each mission would come during reentry over the Pacific. NASA added camera pods to the Apollo Range Instrumentation Aircraft (later --> Advanced Instrumentation Aircraft, ARIA) platforms, generating pictures such as S69-15592 of Apollo 8 (this one), originally found at "http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/html/as8.htm"
Numerous bits of debris, presumably from the Service Module, appear as well as the fireball around the Command Module.
Additional pictures by airline passengers exist at least for Apollo 13.
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APOLLO 4 AS 04-01-212.jpgAS 04-01-212 - The "Blue Planet" in transit (2)89 visite...la Luna (ergo dopo Apollo 17) ci siamo fermati?
Che cosa è successo?
Erano davvero "totalmente sprecati" i miliardi di Dollari impiegati nel Programma Spaziale?
La Luna non serviva davvero a nessuno?
Era meglio investire in "Scudi Spaziali" e "Polizia Internazionale"?
Ci siamo "ritirati" o "ci hanno mandati via"?...
Pensate a queste domande, di tanto in tanto, o magari la prossima volta che Vi troverete a guardare la Luna, magari dopo un temporale: credeteci, è il momento migliore!...
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48-Ranger9.jpgThe "floor" of Alphonsus Crater (3" before impact)89 visiteCaption NASA originale:"Last image taken by the Ranger 9 wide-angle A-camera about 3 seconds before impact. The image shows the floor of Alphonsus Crater from a distance of 7,5 km. The frame is about 3.3 Km across, the resolution is about 6 meters. North is at 12:30 (Ranger 9, A070)".
Location & Time Information
Date/Time (UT): 1965-03-24 T 14:08:17
Distance/Range (km): 7.58
Central Latitude/Longitude (deg): -12.85, 002.41 W
Orbit(s): Impact - Hard Landing
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15-S-Aristarchus Crater-3D.jpgAristarchus Crater, from Lunar Orbiter 5 (3D)89 visiteUno splendido frame, arricchito dalla tridimensionalità, per uno dei crateri più belli e misteriosi della nostra Luna.
Da vedere con attenzione.
Original caption:"Stereoscopic view of the crater Aristarchus, 40 km across and about 3.6 km deep. The floor is partially covered with material that slumped down the walls; its eastern portion (toward the top of the page), being least covered by this material, is the lowest and smoothest part. A long narrow central peak rises 300 meters above the floor. Note the terracing of the inner crater walls and also the elevation of the rim crest above the outer ejecta blanket".
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15-U-Tobias.jpgTobias Mayer Crater, from Lunar Orbiter 5 (3D)89 visiteOriginal caption:"Stereoscopic view of an area sw of the Crater Tobias Mayer in Oceanus Procellarum. The highland ridge in the middle portion of the anaglyph is about 35 Km long and 2 Km high. A smooth mare dome abuts the western flank of the ridge. The dome is about 20 Km in diameter and exhibits an elongate summit crater, about 5 Km long.
A sinuous rille meanders across the lower part of the photograph, detouring around the base of the dome. Note the presence of several crater chains in the lower half and a large highland mass at upper left".
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20-Aristarchus Crater.jpgAristarchus Crater87 visiteCaption NASA originale:"Lunar Orbiter 5 view of Aristarchus Crater. Aristarchus is approximately 40 Km in diameter and 3,6 Km in depth from rim to floor. Note the hummocky ejecta blanket surrounding the crater and the concentric and radial valleys along the Crater walls, resulting from mass gravity wasting. North is up (Lunar Orbiter 5, frame M-197)".
Location & Time Information
Date/Time (UT): 1967-08-18 T 08:59
Distance/Range (km): 130
Central Latitude/Longitude (deg): +23.06/312.58
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APOLLO 4 AS 04-01-307.jpgAS 04-01-307 - The "Blue Planet" in transit (3)86 visitenessun commento
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APOLLO 8 AS 08-12-2198.jpgAS 08-12-2198 - The Moon from orbit (3)85 visitenessun commento
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47-Ranger9.jpgThe "Central Peak" of Alphonsus Crater85 visiteCaption NASA originale:"Ranger 9 image taken 54 seconds before impact. The upraised area at lower center is the central peak of Alphonsus Crater floor. This image was taken from a distance of 136 Km. The impact point of Ranger 9 is to the right of the central reticle, about 60% of the way from the central reticle to the edge of the frame. The image is 60 Km across and North is at 12:30 (Ranger 9, A060)".
Location & Time Information
Date/Time (UT): 1965-03-24 T 14:07:26
Distance/Range (km): 135.96
Central Latitude/Longitude (deg): -13.04, 003.06 W
Orbit(s): Impact - Hard Landing
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49-Rangers9.jpgThe last images from Ranger 985 visiteCaption NASA originale:"This image shows the last 2 pictures taken by Ranger 9 before impact onto the Lunar Surface. The images show the floor of Alphonsus Crater at 12.84° S, 2.39° W. North is at 1:00 in both images. The top image was taken by camera P3 at a distance of 600 m just 0,25 seconds before impact. The frame is about 70 m across. The lower frame is from camera P1. It includes most of the area on the left of the P3 frame and was taken from 1,2 Km 4,5 seconds prior to impact. The image is approximately 50 meters across. Part of the P3 frame is missing because Ranger 9 did not finish transmitting before impact. These were the last images from the Ranger Programme, which ended with this Mission (Ranger 9, P012)".
Location & Time Information
Date/Time (UT): 1965-03-24 T14:08:19.5
Distance/Range (km): 1
Central Latitude/Longitude (deg): -12.84, 002.39 W
Orbit(s): Impact - Hard Landing
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