Newly restored "Picture of the Century"

[LunaSea]

Lunar Orbiter 2's View of Copernicus

The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) has released another iconic image taken during the Lunar Orbiter program in the 1960's. This image, which shows the dramatic landscape within the crater Copernicus was often referred to as the "picture of the century" by many people at the time of its original public release in 1966.

This image was taken by the Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft at 7:05 p.m. EST on 24 November 1966 from an altitude of 28.4 miles above the lunar surface, 150 miles due south of Copernicus.
http://www.moonviews.com/archives/2009/03/newly_restored_picture_of_the.html

An amazing 1 meter per pixel!
The full image (around 1.8G) is to be posted tomorrow.

[aquart]

1. Look what we did!

At least there's something we can do right.

[Arctic Dave]

2. I can't recall ever seeing this picture before. Thank you for the post.

[Laelth]

3. No sense of perspective on the moon.

No trees or other familiar objects to gauge distance and size. It's really strange and disorienting.

Thanks for posting.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Orrex]

4. I'll bet that image looks awesome on an iPhone