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/
RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lrkellogg
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jul/HQ_09-152_LROC_images.html
July 02, 2009
Grey Hautaluoma
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0668
grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov
Nancy Neal Jones
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-0039/5017
nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov
Nicole Staab
Arizona State University, Tempe
602-710-7169
nstaab@asu.edu
RELEASE: 09-152
NASA'S LRO SPACECRAFT SENDS FIRST LUNAR IMAGES TO EARTH
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
"Our first images were taken along the moon's terminator -- the dividing line between day and night -- making us initially unsure of how they would turn out," said LROC Principal Investigator Mark Robinson of Arizona State University in Tempe. "Because of the deep shadowing, subtle topography is exaggerated, suggesting a craggy and inhospitable surface. In reality, the area is similar to the region where the Apollo 16 astronauts safely explored in 1972. While these are magnificent in their own right, the main message is that LROC is nearly ready to begin its mission."
LRO will help NASA identify safe landing sites for future explorers, locate potential resources, describe the moon's radiation environment and demonstrate new technologies.
The satellite also has started to activate its six other instruments. The Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector will look for regions with enriched hydrogen that potentially could have water ice deposits. The Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation is designed to measure the moon's radiation environment. Both were activated on June 19 and are functioning normally.
Instruments expected to be activated during the next week and calibrated are the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, designed to build 3-D topographic maps of the moon's landscape; the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, which will make temperature maps of the lunar surface; and the Miniature Radio Frequency, or Mini-RF, an experimental radar and radio transmitter that will search for subsurface ice and create detailed images of permanently-shaded craters.
The final instrument, the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project, will be activated after the other instruments have completed their calibrations, allowing more time for residual contaminants from the manufacture and launch of LRO to escape into the vacuum of space. This instrument is an ultraviolet-light imager that will use starlight to search for surface ice. It will take pictures of the
permanently-shaded areas in deep craters at the lunar poles.
"Accomplishing these significant milestones moves us closer to our goals of preparing for safe human return to the moon, mapping the moon in unprecedented detail, and searching for resources," said LRO Project Scientist Richard Vondrak of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
While its instruments are being activated and tested, the spacecraft is in a special elliptical commissioning orbit around the moon. The orbit takes less fuel to maintain than the mission's primary orbit. The commissioning orbit's closest point to the lunar surface is about 19 miles over the moon's south pole, and its farthest point is approximately 124 miles over the lunar north pole.
After the spacecraft and instruments have completed their initial calibrations, the spacecraft will be directed into its primary
mission orbit in August, a nearly-circular orbit about 31 miles above the lunar surface.
Goddard built and manages LRO, a NASA mission with international participation from the Institute for Space Research in Moscow. Russia provides the neutron detector aboard the spacecraft.
For more information about LRO's cameras and to view the first images, visit:
http://lroc.sese.asu.edu
For more information about the LRO mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/lro
The LRO mission is providing regular updates via Twitter. To follow the spacecraft, visit:
http://www.twitter.com/LRO_NASA
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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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
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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.
RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lrkellogg
==============================
http://www.nasa.gov/home/
July 02, 2009
Grey Hautaluoma
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0668
grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov
Nancy Neal Jones
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
301-286-0039/5017
nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov
Nicole Staab
Arizona State University, Tempe
602-710-7169
nstaab@asu.edu
RELEASE: 09-152
NASA'S LRO SPACECRAFT SENDS FIRST LUNAR IMAGES TO EARTH
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
"Our first images were taken along the moon's terminator -- the dividing line between day and night -- making us initially unsure of how they would turn out," said LROC Principal Investigator Mark Robinson of Arizona State University in Tempe. "Because of the deep shadowing, subtle topography is exaggerated, suggesting a craggy and inhospitable surface. In reality, the area is similar to the region where the Apollo 16 astronauts safely explored in 1972. While these are magnificent in their own right, the main message is that LROC is nearly ready to begin its mission."
LRO will help NASA identify safe landing sites for future explorers, locate potential resources, describe the moon's radiation environment and demonstrate new technologies.
The satellite also has started to activate its six other instruments. The Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector will look for regions with enriched hydrogen that potentially could have water ice deposits. The Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation is designed to measure the moon's radiation environment. Both were activated on June 19 and are functioning normally.
Instruments expected to be activated during the next week and calibrated are the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, designed to build 3-D topographic maps of the moon's landscape; the Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, which will make temperature maps of the lunar surface; and the Miniature Radio Frequency, or Mini-RF, an experimental radar and radio transmitter that will search for subsurface ice and create detailed images of permanently-shaded craters.
The final instrument, the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project, will be activated after the other instruments have completed their calibrations, allowing more time for residual contaminants from the manufacture and launch of LRO to escape into the vacuum of space. This instrument is an ultraviolet-light imager that will use starlight to search for surface ice. It will take pictures of the
permanently-shaded areas in deep craters at the lunar poles.
"Accomplishing these significant milestones moves us closer to our goals of preparing for safe human return to the moon, mapping the moon in unprecedented detail, and searching for resources," said LRO Project Scientist Richard Vondrak of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
While its instruments are being activated and tested, the spacecraft is in a special elliptical commissioning orbit around the moon. The orbit takes less fuel to maintain than the mission's primary orbit. The commissioning orbit's closest point to the lunar surface is about 19 miles over the moon's south pole, and its farthest point is approximately 124 miles over the lunar north pole.
After the spacecraft and instruments have completed their initial calibrations, the spacecraft will be directed into its primary
mission orbit in August, a nearly-circular orbit about 31 miles above the lunar surface.
Goddard built and manages LRO, a NASA mission with international participation from the Institute for Space Research in Moscow. Russia provides the neutron detector aboard the spacecraft.
For more information about LRO's cameras and to view the first images, visit:
http://lroc.sese.asu.edu
For more information about the LRO mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/lro
The LRO mission is providing regular updates via Twitter. To follow the spacecraft, visit:
http://www.twitter.com/LRO_
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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