Post by Kiwi on Mar 8, 2009 4:45:08 GMT -4
I've nearly always used just three web sites for the Apollo photos I've wanted: The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, Kip Teague's Apollo Archive and the LPI's Apollo Image Atlas.
But the ALSJ lacks some orbital photos and, naturally, photos from the missions that didn't land on the moon. The Apollo Archive is a little limited but seems to be slowly building an archive of standard and hi-res scans of complete films, and the LPI has all the Apollo photos, including blank frames, but only in lower-quality thumbnails and proofs.
Does anyone have links to any other sites that have high-quality scans from Apollos 7 to 10 and 13, and orbital photos not in the ALSJ? For instance, there are some nice photos taken between crater Maskelyne and Tranquility Base from the Apollo 10 lunar module as it descended toward the surface, but I've only found the LPI proofs of them.
Two of my favourite orbital photos are AS10-34-5158HR and AS11-37-5447HR, which once would have been a meaningless jumble to me, but now, knowing where to look and what to look for in both of them, it's not hard to find tiny West Crater among the hundreds of other craters -- the one which Neil Armstrong manually overflew.
The Apollo 11 photos here help: www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apollo/landing_sites.html
West Crater is one of a distinctive pattern of six or seven. Identifying it is a good exercise that can take ten minutes. Test your observational skills, but don't cheat first with labelled versions!
But the ALSJ lacks some orbital photos and, naturally, photos from the missions that didn't land on the moon. The Apollo Archive is a little limited but seems to be slowly building an archive of standard and hi-res scans of complete films, and the LPI has all the Apollo photos, including blank frames, but only in lower-quality thumbnails and proofs.
Does anyone have links to any other sites that have high-quality scans from Apollos 7 to 10 and 13, and orbital photos not in the ALSJ? For instance, there are some nice photos taken between crater Maskelyne and Tranquility Base from the Apollo 10 lunar module as it descended toward the surface, but I've only found the LPI proofs of them.
Two of my favourite orbital photos are AS10-34-5158HR and AS11-37-5447HR, which once would have been a meaningless jumble to me, but now, knowing where to look and what to look for in both of them, it's not hard to find tiny West Crater among the hundreds of other craters -- the one which Neil Armstrong manually overflew.
The Apollo 11 photos here help: www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apollo/landing_sites.html
West Crater is one of a distinctive pattern of six or seven. Identifying it is a good exercise that can take ten minutes. Test your observational skills, but don't cheat first with labelled versions!