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How come NASA never have sent any Digital Imagery to get some really good Images of the moon ?
Its 2009 ...not 1950
They have ways to take High Def Images .
And yet they have old remakes with digital copies or prints
Where is the tax payer money at ? I would hope new Images would be the rule of the future and not just old remakes .
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Basically there's a limit to taxpayer money.
Decisions have to be made on where that money is spent.
For example, the two rovers now on Mars are doing a great job; would it have been better not to send them, just to get better pictures of the Moon?
Just wait, better pictures are coming.
Measure once, cut twice. Practice makes perfect.
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Yes, better pictures are coming, very, very soon.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, set to launch June, will map the surface of the moon with resolution to half a meter.
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How soon after that will Google Moon be online?Originally Posted by Siguy
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*cough* http://moon.google.com
(it used to have a 'special' feature if you zoomed all the way in, but I don't see that anymore)
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Why would you think that the current moon probes arent digital? Heck if you are going to get really technical, I doubt there has been an analog system on a probe for more than 30 years
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Didn't Japan's orbiter, Kaguya, take high-def images of the moon? I know that there was the highly advertised high-def shot of earth taken from the moon, but i didn't hear about any other images since then.
Looking at their website, http://www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html, I can find the wide angle high-def shots and images created from the laser altimeter data, but no close up high def imagery.
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