Re: India's Chandrayaan 1 Successfully Launches

On Oct 22, 9:04 am, "Mark R. Whittington" <mwhitti...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The Indian Moon mission, the Chandrayaan 1, has launched successfully
from the launch complex at Andhra Pradesh in southeast India.
Chandrayaan 1 is in orbit around the Earth, preparing to be fired into
a trajectory to lunar orbit.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1133014/indias_chandrayaan_1...

Good grief, for the most part you folks don’t even believe in radar
imaging. Is that downright pathetic or what. Obviously the radar
imaging of Venus was not about color/hue saturation, but about
obtaining highly reliable and nearly 3D imaging of terrain, plus
detecting of most anything else (day or night, clouds or not).

Our Selene/moon via our 15 year old Clementine has loads of color/hue
saturation and dynamic range to spare, but then you and others of your
kind don’t really care about anything that'll make your NASA/Apollo
look iffy or bogus. Since our NASA and government supposedly doesn’t
doctor or PhotoShop any of their images, means that what you see is in
fact what you’d get if taking that same picture again with that same
camera and optics.

Notice the moon, Venus and our sun within the same FOV, in color none
the less, and even a few of those pesky stars getting into that image.
(the Messenger mission has Clementine beat by at least 10 fold better
DR, as well as far superior optics and color/hue bandpass saturation
detection) Wonder why we’re not allowed to see the best of what
Messenger has to offer.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/clementine/clementine.html

http://www.nrl.navy.mil/NewsRoom/images/clem.jpg

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/clementine/a16_new7.gif

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/clem2nd/

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/clem2nd/clementine_index.shtml

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/clementine/clementine.html#data
“This camera operated at visible wavelengths with CCD technology
combined with an image intensifier and a six-position spectral filter
wheel. It provided higher-resolution images free from spacecraft
motion blur. [Instrument Details at NSSDC]”

Let us see how those new and improved images from the India mission
stack up (should be a whole lot better in most every color/hue
saturation and dynamic range kind of way imaginable ).

~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth BG
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