Chris De JabetOct 1
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A 360-degree view of the Moon's surface in high resolution captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

Credit: LRO/ASU/NASA

Sep 30 at 11:30pmWeb
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Read about how this was made and see some super-high resolution images here: http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/posts/707
A Unique View Of The Moon

The Sun overhead, across the whole Moon! Of course this is not possible in real life, but 36 nearly complete WAC mosaics make this view possible [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

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@wonderofscience I guess there are some red-faced flat lunatickers.....
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@wonderofscience I love our big floating rock, she's so pretty
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@wonderofscience what is indicated by the lightest and darkest bits in this image?
Show threadTomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️Oct 1

@acm_redfox @wonderofscience

As mentioned in the "How we made this image" article at https://lroc.im-ldi.com/images/707 the bit values represent reflectance...after various corrections were applied. ("For this mosaic the LROC Team used the 643 nm band, a solar angle 10° from vertical (nearly noon), and a viewing angle straight down.")

Note that this page shows lunar topography/elevation as various colors, or as brighter/darker pixels: https://lroc.im-ldi.com/images/451

I hope this helps.

A Unique View Of The Moon

The Sun overhead, across the whole Moon! Of course this is not possible in real life, but 36 nearly complete WAC mosaics make this view possible [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].

Show threadTomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️Oct 1

@wonderofscience

It's too bad this view of the moon does not nod up/down, at least a little bit, to give us a less foreshortened view of the polar regions.

Here are two pages that let us look straight down at the north and south poles: (but they show elevation/topography, not reflectance)

https://data.lroc.im-ldi.com/lroc/view_rdr_product/WAC_CSHADE_O900N0000_064P_GRID?_gl=1*mx3pd*_ga*MTg3MjY3MTA2My4xNzU5Mjg2MDM4*_ga_SBFXQ3JFQY*czE3NTkyODg4NTEkbzIkZzEkdDE3NTkyODkwMDAkajYwJGwwJGgw

https://data.lroc.im-ldi.com/lroc/view_rdr_product/WAC_CSHADE_O900S0000_064P_GRID?_gl=1*2uq640*_ga*MTg3MjY3MTA2My4xNzU5Mjg2MDM4*_ga_SBFXQ3JFQY*czE3NTkyODg4NTEkbzIkZzEkdDE3NTkyODkwMDAkajYwJGwwJGgw

Viewing WAC_CSHADE_O900N0000_064P_GRID

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@wonderofscience ♪ there's no dark side of the moon, really - matter of fact it's all dark♫
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@wonderofscience honestly, seeing the “dark side of the moon” feels almost transgressive
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@wonderofscience moon speen
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