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The Highest Resolution Photograph Of The Moon Ever Taken

High Resolution Image Of Moon

Whoa! I’ve never seen the moon look like this before! I always thought it was just a big boring blurry blob with a few craters in it. I bet this one picture will inspire school children everywhere to become more interested in astronomy.

This absolutely gorgeous photo is the highest resolution picture of moon ever taken… ever. According to Wired, “It’s the highest resolution, near-global topographic image of our lunar neighbor yet.” One measure of elevation is represented by one pixel, which is the size of two football fields side-by-side.

There is a whole color scheme here. The white parts are the highest and the purplish-pink parts are the deepest areas. The scale goes down in depth from white, red, orange, green, blue, purple and lastly, purplish-pink. You can read all the geeky details about what kind of camera was used, why it took so long to get this picture, and what scientists will be able to learn from it on the NASA website. This photograph (map) was made possible by the astronomers at Arizona State University who used NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to build it.

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NASA Hi Res Moon Photograph

Via: [Geekosystem]


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Author: Diana Adams


As the editor and global advertising director for Bit Rebels, Diana spends her days fine-tuning the content for Bit Rebels and working with established companies, startups, app developers and Internet entrepreneurs who want to be associated with the Bit Rebels brand. Diana started with Bit Rebels in July of 2009, three weeks after the site launched. She brought fifteen years of Information Technology experience and a love of everything considered geek with her, and she enjoys the journey each day as the site continues to reach more people and progress at a very fast pace. You can usually find Diana working in the Bit Rebels office located in Atlanta or sitting in the corner of a downtown Starbucks somewhere with her MacBook, iPad, iPhone and a Grande Caramel Macchiato. You can reach Diana at diana@bitrebels.com

One Comment

guy

May 10th, 2013

this is supposed to be impressive? it’s photoshopped! give me the true colors if you’re going to claim this to be the best photo ever taken of the moon. why butcher it with altered colors? give it to us raw!

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