[FPSPACE] FW: [HASTRO-L] Apollo images to be available

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: "John M. McMahon" <mcmahon at LEMOYNE.EDU>
>Reply-To: History of Astronomy Discussion Group <HASTRO-L at listserv.wvu.edu>
>To: HASTRO-L at listserv.wvu.edu
>Subject: [HASTRO-L] Apollo images to be available
>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:15:56 -0400
>
>BBC 8/28/07:
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>"Apollo Moon photos reveal detail"
>
>"Highly detailed photographs of the Moon taken by the Apollo missions are
>being made available to the public for the first in more than 30 years.
>
>Photos taken on the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions in the 1970s showed the
>Moon in great detail but were only ever viewed by a few scientists.
>
>Since then they have been locked away in freezers by Nasa to preserve them.
>
>Arizona State University is now making them available from the internet
>after using high resolution scanners."
>
>More:
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6966655.stm
>
>JMM / LMC