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Related: About this forumParting Moon Shots from NASA's GRAIL mission
Three days before the moon-orbiting Ebb spacecraft collided with a lunar mountain, its on-board cameras captured some striking images of the pockmarked moons northern hemisphere from just six miles up. On Jan. 10, NASA released what look like scenes from a science fiction movie: two probes-eye views of the lunar farside, made from Ebbs stitched-together images.
The clips are played six times faster than the spacecrafts flyover actually occurred. The first was shot by the forward-facing MoonKAM, and the second was taken by a rear-facing camera.
Ebb was one of the twin GRAIL spacecraft tasked with mapping the moons gravity field a successful mission that came to an end in December. The images used to create this flyover video were shot on Dec. 14 as the washing machine-size probes began final preparations for the missions planned end. On Dec. 17, the twins crashed into a mountainous crater rim near the lunar north pole, a site which is now named after astronaut Sally Ride.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/grail-moon-flyover/
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Parting Moon Shots from NASA's GRAIL mission (Original Post)
n2doc
Jan 2013
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GentryDixon
(2,964 posts)1. Magnificent.
Thank you for sharing.
It's true, the moon really is made of swiss cheese.
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)2. The rear camera shots
were impressive. They really bring home how flat the moon's surface is overall compared to earth's.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)3. It's 2013...
Can we get some color pictures of the moon already?