These incredible NASA photos taken on the Moon – BFMTV.COM

A blurry photograph of a stars and stripes flag planted on the lunar surface. It is the image of Epinal that collective memory has retained the Apollo in 1969. Yet there are many other pictures that are worth visiting. NASA has just put online on Flickr more than 8,400 images taken by its own astronauts on mission to the moon. And best of all, they fall into the public domain.

The agency had equipped his men Hasselblad cameras and they made good use visibly. But the public had never seen the result with many details. It took for that restore these old cliches and make them return to their initial format in high resolution.

NASA / Apollo 11 –

It all started in 2004. The space center Lyndon B. Johnson begins to scan the pictures of the Apollo missions by taking the original film rolls. The files are then converted to TIFF, an older format that can store large images without quality perdition. Everything is stored on DVD. The images are reworked by adjusting their level of color and brightness. Although Hasselblad cameras have produced black and white movies and excellent color, size is reduced to 1000 DPI to be posted on the web. But the demands for higher quality versions accumulate. Kipp Teague, the project manager Apollo Archive, decided to board all the images available in 1800 IPR and put them one by one online in high resolution on Flickr.

NASA / Apollo 9 –

unsuspected details then appear. We distinguish even the pores of the astronauts who appear much more modern and closer to us with this degree of precision. It lacks many collections the call: the Apollo missions 7.8, 9, 10 and 13 and have not yet been processed. We can not wait to discover the

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