On 16 December, 2008 I talked about the first picture of the Earth and Moon taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 during 1966. This morning while browsing the Astronomy Picture of the Day web site I found that APOD recently (18 November, 2008) featured a restored version of the same picture; its much better than the version I used to illustrate my earlier post. Go to APOD, this is the link http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081118.html; click on the image to enlarge.
Image credit: © NASA/Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project, 2008.
The original image was restored by the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project in November last year (www.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/features/LOIRP/index.html). More information about the image, including a comparison of the original and restored versions, and historical documents are available there.
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