The spacecraft was threeaxis stabilized in lunar orbit via reaction wheels. Use this great tool to view an image of your property by simply entering specific latitude and longitude information. During its flight and lunar orbit, the clementine spacecraft returned images of the planet earth and the moon. The clementine laser image detection and ranging experiment was designed to measure the distance from the spacecraft to a point on the surface of the moon. If you are not using a graphical www browser you may download the image for viewing seperately. A crater as big as a football field was just ahead, surrounded by a field of boulders, some as big as. Moon clementine uvvis warped color ratio mosaic 200m v1. We also have detailed information about the project that was donated to the smithsonian. Clementine, engineering model national air and space museum. Clementine satellite image galleries clementine lunar image browser 1.
Robert staehle, richard terrile, and stacy weinsteinmission designers from jplstruggle to find a cheap way to go to pluto. Jul 07, 2009 new object found on moon via clementine lunar browser page. Oct 27, 2011 using elevation and image data returned by lunar reconnaissance orbiter, this animation takes the viewer on a virtual tour of the moon. Look for the results to a reduced version of the moon. The objective of the mission was to test sensors and spacecraft components under extended exposure to the space environment and to make scientific. Color ratios serve to cancel out the dominant brightness variations in the image, generally caused by albedo variations and topographic shading. This collection of uvvis camera clementine images shows the earth from the moon and 3 images of the earth. In addition you may select from a variety of resolutions and image sizes. The tour visits a number of interesting sites chosen to illustrate a wide variety of lunar terrain features. New object found on moon via clementine lunar browser, page 1.
The laboratory provides the clementine lunar image browser as a courtesy to scientific researchers, as well as the general public, and you are welcome to browse the over 170,000 images that are available. South pole region of the moon as seen by clementine full resolution. The image on the left shows the earth as seen across the lunar north pole. Honestly, how are we supposed to check our findings if these things dont work. Clementine is a modern music player and library organizer. Mariner mariner 6 and 7 image browser retrieve, and manipulate to fit your own interests, the archived images from these two nasa missions to mars. The next level of processing, level 1, performs radiometric correction and cosmetic enhancement cleanup on an image. Surface mineralogy and stratigraphy of the lunar south pole. This interface allows you to view an image of the moon or an exact location on the moon.
Much of the data collected during the mission is displayed here. Clementine disambiguation clementine lunar control network. The first part consisted of a 5 hour elliptical polar orbit with a perilune. These views of the moon were created from the global 5 band basemap produced by the usgs flagstaff, university of arizona, northwestern university, applied coherent technology, university of hawaii, brown university. Along with its primary mission to test this new technology, it returned valuable lunar data to the scientific community. This map of the moon was created from image data taken by the clementine spacecraft. The objective of the mission was to test sensors and spacecraft components under extended exposure to the space environment and to make scientific observations of the moon and the nearearth asteroid 1620 geographos. Something extraordinary on the moon by jasma issuu. This download manager has smart algorithm to find out and download images, mp3, zips and other resources from internet. Clementine had five different imaging systems onboard.
Mariner 9 image browser software for mariner 9 tv experiment allows image processing with noise filtering, despeckling, and reconstruction. We offer still images, animations, and a lunar map with metadata features. This view has been subsampled to a resolution of about 1 kmpixel, about 5 times lower than. The spacecraft was launched on january 25, 1994 at 16. Jan 30, 2019 this collection is an early sampling of the 1. Charlene anderson provides a few of the early images of the moon processed.
Lunar orbiter mission information about the lunar orbiter mission, our missionrelated projects, and other lunar orbiter mission sites on the web. Clementine was a joint project between the strategic defense initiative organization and nasa. This is my todays solution to attach a ccdcamera nikon coolpix 900 on a telescoop. When i enter 42 latitude 11 longitude into the clementine photo page, i get nothing. During its two month orbit of the moon in 1994, clementine captured 1. Nasa clementine was a joint project between the strategic defense initiative organization and nasa. Clementine topographic map of the moon near sidefar side. For many years this was all that was available, and the images were offered as the best available few people questioned the fact. Nasa announced on march 5, 1998, that data obtained from clementine. You will need an image viewer, remote sensing, or gis application to view. This interface allows you to view an image of the moon, centered on whatever point you indicate by clicking on the image below. Lunar orbiter 5 completed the photography of the farside and collected. When the navy first release images from clementine, the data set was only available in low resolution, heavy pixelated. Highresolution smart1 amie camera images of bhabha and bose area.
There were also plans to image and determine the size, shape, rotational. This will allow an altimetric map to be made, which can be used to constrain the morphology of large basins and other lunar features, study stress and strain and flexural properties of the. Using elevation and image data returned by lunar reconnaissance orbiter lro, this animation takes the viewer on a virtual tour of the moon. Usgs astrogeology science center publication date 15 august 2008 originator usgs astrogeology science center group pds added to astropedia 16 july 2015 modified 3 february 2020 general purpose. Clementine was a joint space project between the ballistic missile defense organization and. We have successfully developed a robust change 1 iim feo model through pls regression with parameters suppressing the maturity and tio 2 effects based on the new feo map by change 1, we discover an obvious compositional inhomogeneity across lunar highland regions, which have not been suggested by previous datasets e. On the full sized version you can find the name of some craters 33 species, the size and the depth. Clementine 750 nm basemap 1 kmpixel usgs global 5 band uvvis mosaics of the moon. It was designed to complete a twomonth mapping mission in orbit around the moon and then fly past an asteroid. Global 750 icon, clementine 750 nm basemap 1 kmpixel usgs. Image processing by brian fessler and paul spudis, lpi. Moon clementine uvvis 5 band warped image mosaic 200m v1.
About clementine naval research laboratory clementine lunar map 2. Clementine lunar image browser how is clementine lunar. The image of the full moon at the top of the page was taken on orbit 100, 15 march 1994 at 00. The clementine mission lunar and planetary institute. I was searching through the clementine lunar image browser 1. I wanted to check lunar orbiter 4071 photograph with 42latitude 33longitude as well, but nothing displays. Clementine iron map of the moon image derived from the clementine global color data in 750 and 950 nm wavelengths showing the concentration of iron in the soils of the lunar surface. Internet image browser is pictures download manager to collect pictures from web sitesjust define starting url. The clementine lunar image browser has been transformed and renamed with the release of this browser based map. Space exploration resources resources earths moon clementine. Clementine was the first of a new class of small spacecraft to enable longduration deep space missions at low cost using lightweight satellite technology.
Earths moon learn about some of our many lunar projects and research, view and download lunar image and map projects, and find lunar resources on the web. The image is a mosaic of two smart1 amie images, neutral filter, produced in envi. The mosaic has also been included as a layer in the pigwad apollo footprint viewer. Clementine was built by the naval research laboratory in washington, d. View your moon property with an awesome tool developed by the navy named the clementine lunar image browser 1. Level 1 consists of a series of programs to correct or remove image artifacts such as 1 camera shading inherent in imaging systems, 2 brightness anomalies caused by dust specks in the optical path, 3 microphonic noise. At 300 m above the lunar surface, short on fuel and looking for a smooth area on which to land, armstrong did not like what he saw.