Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Near Side of the Moon Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Near Side of the Moon

Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Near Side of the Moon

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    • 67,99 €

Publisher Description

In 1967, Lunar Orbiter Mission 4 sent back to Earth a superb series of photographs of the surface of the Moon, despite severe degradation caused by scanning and the reconstruction processes involved in transmission from lunar orbit.
Using 21st century techniques, Charles Byrne  - previously System Engineer of the Apollo Program for Lunar Orbiter Photography -  has removed almost all the artifacts and imperfections to provide a comprehensive and beautifully detailed set of images of the lunar surface.
The book has been organized to make it easy for astronomers to use, enabling ground-based images and views to be compared with the Orbiter photographs.  The photographs are striking for their consistent Sun angles (for uniform appearance).  All features are identified with their current IAU-approved names, and each photograph is located in terms of latitude and longitude.  To help practical astronomers, all the photographs are systematically related to an Earth-based view.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2010
17 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
339
Pages
PUBLISHER
Springer London
SIZE
158.3
MB

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