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    McMoon: How the Earliest Images of the Moon Were so Much Better than we Realised historical science worldofindie.co.uk
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    gerikson avatar gerikson 2 months ago | link

    The Lunar Orbiters never returned to Earth with the imagery. Instead, the Orbiter developed the 70mm film (yes film) and then raster scanned the negatives with a 5 micron spot (200 lines/mm resolution) and beamed the data back to Earth using lossless analog compression, which was yet to actually be patented by anyone.

    This blew my mind.

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      kghose avatar kghose 2 months ago | link

      https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/volumes/loirp.html