lunar images Amateurs and space exploration, rejoice. NASA has just put online via a Flickr account a windfall that should keep you busy for some time: about 8400 photographs taken by Apollo astronauts using Hasselblad equipment with which they were equipped. These images, captured on the surface of the Moon, as well as inside the capsules when traveling between Earth and its satellite, were already visible online, but more dispersed, especially in relatively low resolution (the least according to what is the current digital standard).
“Project Apollo Archive,” on the site which could already access these files was re-digitized images to draw a fine resolution of 1800 DPI which does justice to the original silver Hasselblad, from 70 mm film format, reports including site The Verge . The beauty of this Flickr page lies in the simplicity of consulting different folders (each corresponding to a film) and the ability to see beyond the best-known images and archidiffusées, rarer series, but no less touching. Successive snapshots of the Earth appearing increasingly on a small film of Apollo 16, the Moon wide panoramas and close-ups of various tools Apollo 12 views onboard camera aboard the Apollo 16 lunar jeep , or Apollo 17 astronauts sitting, shaving and taking a picture while returning to Earth.
During the American lunar program, twelve men walked on the moon in six missions (Apollo 11 17, less Apollo 13) and four other expeditions went around the Moon without landing there (8-10 Apollo, Apollo 13 more, under duress). All photographs taken during these flights have not yet been redigitized in high definition. Until they are, it is already possible to draw some very fine things, as did the astronomer Alex Parker, who is working on the mission New Horizons recently photographed Pluto. Series of photographs taken by the crew of Apollo 13 to examine and document the damage to their ship (we see a whole panel of the service module ripped off by the explosion of oxygen tanks), he fired a gorgeous little animation after cropped clichés.
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