[FPSPACE] Lunokhod 2 panorama's

[John]

David, maybe they were reprocessed a la Lunar Orbiter re-releases to  
coincide with LRO etc?  Do they look better than 30 years ago?

JBC
(some typos due to iPhone touchpad)

On Oct 8, 2009, at 20:50, David Portree <dsfportree at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Geert:
>
> I wonder why these have been released just now (I'm assuming that  
> they've just been released).  Perhaps because soon LRO images of the  
> Lunokhods on the surface will be released?
>
> I circulated the URL you provided to colleagues at the USGS, where I  
> work. I heard from one that Hal Masursky had all the Lunokhod pans  
> in the 1970s. Not sure if this is true, but it could be, since he  
> had a lot of international contacts (like Shoemaker before him). If  
> so, the facility I manage might have inherited them, though I  
> confess that I haven't found them yet if it does. I took over a big  
> mess, not a proper archive, and I have a ways to go before I get it  
> straightened out.
>
> David S. F. Portree
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> From: geert at navtools.nl
> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 07:30:37 +0000
> Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Lunokhod 2 panorama's
> To: dsfportree at hotmail.com
> CC: fpspace at friends-partners.org
>
> Astro0, one of the UMSF wizards, already created a first processed  
> image from the raw data, which is absolutely fabulous, http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=2698&view=findpost&p=147475 
>  Some of the images might allow construction of 3D images which  
> would be very interesting so many years after the actual flight.
> It's a pity these images are still (watermarked) scan's from the  
> originals, somewhere there must be tapes with the original data,  
> which would be so much more worthwhile. People like Don Mitchell and  
> the UMSF team already showed how the original data from for instance  
> the Venera landers and the early Luna probes far outreaches anything  
> we are used to seeing in the normal publications.
>
> The camera's on these probes, as well as on the Lunokhods, were very  
> good and advanced and produced very sharp images indeed, however  
> these were then printed on terrible quality paper, scanned, re- 
> printed, etc and distributed in a form which doesn't do any credit  
> to the actual originals. Weird indeed that, with so much propaganda- 
> value, they never seemed to have made any attempt to distribute the  
> images in such a way that would do credit to them.
>
> Regarding the tracks, it is clearly visible how the steering of the  
> Lunokhods differed from Spirit/Oppy and the moonrovers, the  
> Lunokhods did not have steerable wheels but were steered like a  
> tank, increasing rpm on one side and decreasing rpm on the other,  
> which is a more crude method but has the advantage of less moving  
> parts on the craft. Especially with Lunokhod 2 the area does seem to  
> be much more dusty then on the Apollo sites and certainly more dusty  
> then MER encounters on Mars. Tracks are often clearly very deep down  
> in the dust, must have taken a lot of power to plough through that  
> stuff. Driving those lunokhods real time from earth must have been  
> something special, completely different from how the MER craft are  
> operated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert Sassen
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:42 PM, David Portree  
> <dsfportree at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Geert:
>
> Great stuff. I love the pans that show the rover's own tracks. Very  
> reminiscent of Spirit and Opportunity.
>
> Many thanks for the link.
>
> David S. F. Portree
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> From: geert at navtools.nl
> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 02:56:17 +0000
> To: FPSPACE at friends-partners.org
> Subject: [FPSPACE] Lunokhod 2 panorama's
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>
> Good day,
>
> looks like the Russians have finally found and released all of the  
> Lunokhod 2 panorma pictures.
>
> Very cool stuff:  http://planetology.ru/panoramas/lunokhod2.php?language=english
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert.
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