Re: What are these white dots on a lunar photo?


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| http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/info.shtml?223
|
| Click on the picture. There's a lot of whit dots which are clearly some
| sort of noise on the film. Does anybody know why these imperfections
| appear?

Fingerprints.

No, I don't think so. Enlarge the picture; they are small white dots,
not lines. They seem to be some sort of overexposure.

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