Michael SumnerPretty bonkers to be hearing distance quoted in miles
Even Rouault@mdsumner that, and a bit strange that multi-tens-of-billion dollar space mission relies on astronauts commenting about "brownish hues" of the albedo with their bare eyes. Next time maybe we'll get H,S,V values from a digital sensor ?
@EvenRouault it does seem weirdly low-tech atm yeah - I assume there's tons of data to come
@EvenRouault *tonnes* ! haha
@mdsumner A bit of poetry "We see half moon, still full moon joy"
@mdsumner "The crew still want those figures in kilometers and parsec" (reply from Integrity after CapCom communitated distances in statute miles!) 😂
Elio Campitelli@EvenRouault @mdsumner My sense is that we have plenty of high-resolution mapping of the Moon thanks to LRO and other satellites. I doubt that these images are scientifically all that valuable. This is more about science popularisation/propaganda than actual science.