Topic: Moon Pictures

[Sarah90]

U OHH ! ...apparently Parkes'  images of Moon landing have been lost. [/i]"...it is feared that the magnetic tapes that recorded the first moon walk - beamed to the world via three tracking stations, including Parkes famous 'DISH' - have gone missing at NASA's Goddard Space Centre in Maryland.    A desperate search has begun amid concerns the tapes will distintegrate to dust before they can be found.    It is not widely known that the Apollo 11 television broadcast from the moon was a high-quality transmission, far sharper than the identical but more blurry version relayed instantly to the world on that July day 1969.   Among those battling to unscramble the mystery is John Sarkissian, a CSIRO scientist stationed at Parkes for a decade.   "We are working on the assumption they still exist," Mr. Sarkissian told the Herald.   Your guess is as good as mine as to where they are[/i]."

quote from The Sydney Morning Herald" No. 52,693, August 5-6, 2006.

[remcook]

http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/07/13/1654200.shtml
http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_11/TV_from_Moon.html

[Sarah90]

Thanks for that Remmie !!!

[analynsarte]

"The television camera taken to the lunar surface was a Westinghouse designed and built slow-scan black and white camera with a vertical resolution of 320 lines scanned at 10 frames per second. This camera was chosen because the available bandwidth from the Moon (500kHz) was not sufficient for a standard TV signal." It's really great. thanks for that!  ------------------- Science News and Reasearch