DorinDXN
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Any English variant of the new released high resolution map of the Moon?
Posted: 8 Feb 2012 at 19:35 GMT
updated: 8 Feb 2012 at 19:40 GMT
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I only managed to find it in Chinese, even installed the Moon3d but was unable to use it due to the UI only in Chinese language.
What I found and used was this
159.226.88.30:8080/CE2release/cesMain.jsp
I managed to see the Apollo old traces
There is a rar for download, but as I said only managed to have it in Chinese.
Appreciate any point to an English variant.
thanks,
Dorin
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Bob Stone
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Re: Any English variant of the new released high resolution map of the Moon?
Posted: 9 Feb 2012 at 5:38 GMT
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It seems not as detailed as the Chinese site, but Google has one similar that you can view Apollo landing sites.
www.google.com/moon/
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DorinDXN
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Re: Any English variant of the new released high resolution map of the Moon?
Posted: 9 Feb 2012 at 8:08 GMT
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Bob Stone said: It seems not as detailed as the Chinese site, but Google has one similar that you can view Apollo landing sites.
www.google.com/moon/
Thanks Bob, as well as Google Earth software where one can switch from the view of Earth to Moon or even Mars.
But the above link is from map published the other day from the photos recently took by the lunar probe Chang’e-2 (named after the Chinese moon goddess) the details are up to 7 m.
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Dorin
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michael przewrocki
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DorinDXN
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Re: Any English variant of the new released high resolution map of the Moon?
Posted: 14 Feb 2012 at 7:55 GMT
updated: 14 Feb 2012 at 8:12 GMT
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The photos for the map were taken by a moon orbiter, unmanned spaceraft.
Unless will be higly motivated they will not send humans to the Moon or Mars anytime soon, is far better and less risky to send robots which can explore for years like those little rovers, one of them, Opportunity, is still operating after couple of years from it landing on Mars back in 2004.
Even while I'm writing on its way to Mars is the car sized rover with nuclear powered cell (a cell like those from Voyager 2, launced in '77 and is still operating)
The Curiosity rover will land on Mars in August 2012, and here is a 3D partial pano of this rover, using a source photo from nasa.gov website.
www.livepanoramas.com/NASA-curiosity/
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Dorin
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