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Orion just made its final pass around the moon on its way to Earth, and NASA has released some of the spacecraft's best photos so far. Taken by a high-resolution camera (actually a heavily ...
One medium resolution image, most of one high resolution image and parts of three others are missing, apparently due to lapses at the time they were being recorded. [3] The rest of the Lunar Orbiter images have been successfully recovered [2] and have been published in NASA's Planetary Data System. [4]
The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.
In terms of photography, Apollo 14's crew proved to be less "trigger-happy" than the preceding Apollo 12 crew and only took 417 pictures on the Moon, compared to 583 on the earlier mission. However, 288 of these were components of 17 distinct panoramas and ALSJ lists another 25 sub-panoramas within these.
NASA released surreal footage from the Apollo Space Program of the 1960s and ’70s. The stunning, high-resolution visuals give a closer look at a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), nicknamed a “moon ...
This casual footage of an astronaut cruising around the moon's surface during the Apollo 15 voyage is surreal. NASA’s hi-res footage of a ‘moon buggy’ shows space exploration in stunning ...
Those thumbnails in the "Reference Panorama" and "Notes" columns have been included from 'official' NASA resources such as ALSJ and LPI. Entries in the 'Panorama' column have been assembled using panorama-blending software using the High Resolution scans of the original frames held within the "Project Apollo Archive" on Flickr. [7]
Photos taken by the India Space Research Organization moon orbiter Chandrayaan 2 recently show aerial images of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12's lunar landing vehicles.