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The #Moon’s Most Shadowy Places Can’t Hide From #NASA’s New Camera
There are more than 300 permanently shadowed craters on the moon, and the darkness hides an intriguing mystery: oases of frozen water, which could provide a key resource for astronauts living there in the future. New views are the fruits of #ShadowCam, an instrument that NASA provided for #Danuri, #SouthKorea's orbiter that arrived at the moon in December.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/science/moon-nasa-shadowcam-craters.html
https://archive.ph/FyGBx #space -
The #Moon’s Most Shadowy Places Can’t Hide From #NASA’s New Camera
There are more than 300 permanently shadowed craters on the moon, and the darkness hides an intriguing mystery: oases of frozen water, which could provide a key resource for astronauts living there in the future. New views are the fruits of #ShadowCam, an instrument that NASA provided for #Danuri, #SouthKorea's orbiter that arrived at the moon in December.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/science/moon-nasa-shadowcam-craters.html
https://archive.ph/FyGBx #space -
The #Moon’s Most Shadowy Places Can’t Hide From #NASA’s New Camera
There are more than 300 permanently shadowed craters on the moon, and the darkness hides an intriguing mystery: oases of frozen water, which could provide a key resource for astronauts living there in the future. New views are the fruits of #ShadowCam, an instrument that NASA provided for #Danuri, #SouthKorea's orbiter that arrived at the moon in December.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/science/moon-nasa-shadowcam-craters.html
https://archive.ph/FyGBx #space -
The #Moon’s Most Shadowy Places Can’t Hide From #NASA’s New Camera
There are more than 300 permanently shadowed craters on the moon, and the darkness hides an intriguing mystery: oases of frozen water, which could provide a key resource for astronauts living there in the future. New views are the fruits of #ShadowCam, an instrument that NASA provided for #Danuri, #SouthKorea's orbiter that arrived at the moon in December.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/science/moon-nasa-shadowcam-craters.html
https://archive.ph/FyGBx #space -
The #Moon’s Most Shadowy Places Can’t Hide From #NASA’s New Camera
There are more than 300 permanently shadowed craters on the moon, and the darkness hides an intriguing mystery: oases of frozen water, which could provide a key resource for astronauts living there in the future. New views are the fruits of #ShadowCam, an instrument that NASA provided for #Danuri, #SouthKorea's orbiter that arrived at the moon in December.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/science/moon-nasa-shadowcam-craters.html
https://archive.ph/FyGBx #space -
The most unusual picture taken by Korea's lunar orbiter #Danuri - and its #ShadowCam - so far: http://shadowcam.sese.asu.edu/images/1299 shows its fellow orbiter #LRO 18 km away ... and several times in a row, due to the Time Delay Integration (TDI) camera technique and the high relative speed.
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The most unusual picture taken by Korea's lunar orbiter #Danuri - and its #ShadowCam - so far: http://shadowcam.sese.asu.edu/images/1299 shows its fellow orbiter #LRO 18 km away ... and several times in a row, due to the Time Delay Integration (TDI) camera technique and the high relative speed.
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The most unusual picture taken by Korea's lunar orbiter #Danuri - and its #ShadowCam - so far: http://shadowcam.sese.asu.edu/images/1299 shows its fellow orbiter #LRO 18 km away ... and several times in a row, due to the Time Delay Integration (TDI) camera technique and the high relative speed.
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The most unusual picture taken by Korea's lunar orbiter #Danuri - and its #ShadowCam - so far: http://shadowcam.sese.asu.edu/images/1299 shows its fellow orbiter #LRO 18 km away ... and several times in a row, due to the Time Delay Integration (TDI) camera technique and the high relative speed.
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The most unusual picture taken by Korea's lunar orbiter #Danuri - and its #ShadowCam - so far: http://shadowcam.sese.asu.edu/images/1299 shows its fellow orbiter #LRO 18 km away ... and several times in a row, due to the Time Delay Integration (TDI) camera technique and the high relative speed.
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Since the lunar spin axis is only tilted 1.5 degrees, the #Moon barely has seasons. The poles are in a perpetual state of dawn to dusk, with the Sun always on the horizon.
As a result, depressions near the poles never receive direct solar illumination, areas known as permanently shadowed regions or #PSRs.
LROC has imaged nearly all of the Moon at meter scale, except within PSRs. The LROC Narrow Angle Camera design was modified so that #ShadowCam is 200x more sensitive than the NAC to image within PSRs, taking advantage of light dimly reflected from nearby topography.
For film photography, this would be the equivalent of increasing from ISO 100 to greater than 12,800 without increasing grain.
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The newest #lunar orbiter KPLO or #Danuri from Korea carries six instruments, one of them being the NASA-funded #ShadowCam. Designed and built by Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS), ShadowCam is a younger sibling of the successful Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), Narrow Angle Camera (NAC). ShadowCam adds to our knowledge of the Moon by imaging within permanently shadowed regions near the poles - and here is its first image: http://shadowcam.sese.asu.edu/images/1284
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The newest #lunar orbiter KPLO or #Danuri from Korea carries six instruments, one of them being the NASA-funded #ShadowCam. Designed and built by Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS), ShadowCam is a younger sibling of the successful Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), Narrow Angle Camera (NAC). ShadowCam adds to our knowledge of the Moon by imaging within permanently shadowed regions near the poles - and here is its first image: http://shadowcam.sese.asu.edu/images/1284
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The newest #lunar orbiter KPLO or #Danuri from Korea carries six instruments, one of them being the NASA-funded #ShadowCam. Designed and built by Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS), ShadowCam is a younger sibling of the successful Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), Narrow Angle Camera (NAC). ShadowCam adds to our knowledge of the Moon by imaging within permanently shadowed regions near the poles - and here is its first image: http://shadowcam.sese.asu.edu/images/1284
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The newest #lunar orbiter KPLO or #Danuri from Korea carries six instruments, one of them being the NASA-funded #ShadowCam. Designed and built by Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS), ShadowCam is a younger sibling of the successful Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), Narrow Angle Camera (NAC). ShadowCam adds to our knowledge of the Moon by imaging within permanently shadowed regions near the poles - and here is its first image: http://shadowcam.sese.asu.edu/images/1284
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The newest #lunar orbiter KPLO or #Danuri from Korea carries six instruments, one of them being the NASA-funded #ShadowCam. Designed and built by Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS), ShadowCam is a younger sibling of the successful Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), Narrow Angle Camera (NAC). ShadowCam adds to our knowledge of the Moon by imaging within permanently shadowed regions near the poles - and here is its first image: http://shadowcam.sese.asu.edu/images/1284