Over 8000 NASA Moon Mission Photos Now On Flickr

Remarkable NASA Moon Mission Photos Recovered – Lots and Lots of them!

As it turns out, NASA equipped the astronauts with Hasselblad cameras. These guys were way ahead of their time, and until now – we didn’t know what they captured.

Well wait no longer. NASA just released over 8000 Lunar Mission images, and they are all in digital format in excellent high-resolution detail on Flickr.

But before you go over there, check out several of our favorites we grabbed for you.

… and the below article gives a few more details that are well worth noting before you scroll on down …

…… NASA didn’t just send astronauts to the Moon to do scientific exploration, it also sent them equipped with a handful of Hasselblad cameras. The images from these cameras were preserved, and many were digitized. But in recent years the screens we use — the ones in our living rooms, on our desks, and even the ones in our pockets — have seen a drastic increase in quality, leaving these photos looking pixelated and fuzzy. Thanks to some tiresome work from a few enthusiasts, every photo taken on the Moon (and many of the ones taken on the way there and back) has been uploaded in high resolution to one massive Flickr gallery.

The results speak for themselves. Hasseblads are known for capturing impressive detail — they’re referred to as “medium format” cameras, which means the film they use is three to four times as large as a standard 35mm frame — and so much of that translates in these new images. Craters in the surface have new life, the pores of astronauts’ skin show up, and specks of propellant are even visible in images of the lunar landing module’s separation from the orbiter. (Some later missions used 35mm film as well, some of which can be seen in the archive.)

The best news might be that there’s even more to come. ……

Article Source: The Verge

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