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 (DIR) Post #AsznXXyuRGpEWCGlvs by markmccaughrean@mastodon.social
       2025-04-11T20:42:16Z
       
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       A small treat for the weekend. In the late evening of 24 April 1972, Apollo 16 left lunar orbit carrying John Young, Thomas Mattingley II, & Charlie Duke back to Earth.The Apollo Metric (Mapping) Camera took a sequence of still images looking back at the Moon, initially the lunar farside & then the nearside as it rotated into view.Here's a 10 fps movie sequence showing 90 of those images without any processing or alignment. Credit: NASA/JSC/Arizona State University#SpaceExploration
       
 (DIR) Post #AsznXchisb35ALGcL2 by markmccaughrean@mastodon.social
       2025-04-11T20:44:21Z
       
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       The images were downloaded as small-sized PNGs from the Apollo Image Archive at:https://wms.lroc.asu.edu/apollo/browseIf you want to play with the full, raw images yourself, they're all available as well. But beware – the full scan of each image is >1GB in size.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsznXgl3o85xjqrL60 by markmccaughrean@mastodon.social
       2025-04-11T20:49:50Z
       
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       FWIW, I deleted a couple of images from the sequence because they were likely badly scanned (or maybe something happened on the camera side). So there are a couple of hiccups, but it’s jerky enough that you probably don’t notice the gaps.