Apollo Surface Panoramas
Released last week, the Apollo Surface Panoramas archive gives public access to some remarkable photographic panoramas taken on the lunar surface.
Apollo Surface Panoramas is a digital library of photographic panoramas that the Apollo astronauts took while exploring the Moon’s surface. These images provide a spectacular boots-on-the-ground view of the lunar landscape. The panoramas are stitched together from individual 70mm Hasselblad frames, each of which is also accessible through this new atlas. Lunar surface features captured in the panoramas can be studied using zoom and pan tools. An annotated version of each panorama is also available to assist users with the identification of major geographic features around each Apollo landing site.
July 1st, 2008 at 8:35 am
I can’t recall whether the catalog which my 12-year-old peepers were perusing was from Sears-Roebuck or from Alden’s, but in it was a two-page spread of full scene wall coverings. There was a deer in the forest. There was a camel in the desert. There was a covered bridge amongst the fall leaves. And there was a view of the earth from the surface of the moon. Can you dig it? A view of the earth from the surface of the moon that covered an ENTIRE WALL. Mom didn’t dig it. She said, “No.”
July 1st, 2008 at 10:45 am
She said no??? Cruel, cruel mother. Wow. An ENTIRE WALL.
…I want that!