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Post by BertL on Feb 29, 2008 10:15:19 GMT -4
Hey,
I was just wondering if there are any 360 degree shots anywhere in the Apollo missions. Made by the TV camera, that is.
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Post by Jason Thompson on Feb 29, 2008 11:41:45 GMT -4
Yes is the simple answer.
On Apollo 11 Neil made a sweeping panorama of the lunar surface when he put the TV camera on the tripod after removing it from the MESA. It wasn't smooth: he swung the camera a few degrees, left it there so we got a good look at the image, then swung it a bit more, and so on, all the way round.
On Apollo 12 the TV camera burned out before they got to this stage.
There might be one from Apollo 14, but I haven't seen it recently and can't recall. There probably is.
On Apollo 15-17 the camera mounted on the rover was able to pan round almost the full 360 degrees, and the TV footage is full of pans across the landscape all around the rover at the various station it stopped at.
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Post by BertL on Feb 29, 2008 12:00:16 GMT -4
Is there any chance I could download these panoramas somewhere?
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Post by Jason Thompson on Feb 29, 2008 12:48:14 GMT -4
Try the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. They have all the TV in clip form. I'm afraid I don't have the time to hunt through and find them for you, though. There are literally loads once the camera was mounted on the pan/tilt platform on the rover in the last three missions. It shouldn't take you too long to find a few.
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Post by BertL on Mar 1, 2008 7:34:03 GMT -4
Thanks, I found a couple. (It was much easier than I originally thought, too. The ALSJ is much easier to use than you'd expect!)
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