High resolution satellite images of the moon. UFO in Space, on the Moon, on Mars?! Rare NASA photos
For the first time, the North American Space Agency (NASA) has posted high-resolution photographs of the Apollo lunar program on the Internet. Over 9,000 shots high resolution, which no one except specialists had ever seen before, were recently posted on the Flickr photo hosting site for free use. According to NASA, this is only the first step towards popularizing photographic documents of the Apollo program, and other photographs will be made publicly available in the near future.
The Apollo program operated from 1961 to 1975. During this period to natural satellite 11 manned expeditions were sent to Earth, of which 9 reached the Moon, 6 successfully landed on its surface, and one, due to an accident, was forced to fly around the Moon without landing and return home (the other 2 carried out preparatory tasks and landing on the Moon was not envisaged). The cost of the thirteen-year program was $25 billion (139 billion in 2005 dollars), which is almost 10 times less (!) than the costs of the 9-year war in Iraq.
The six successful expeditions were Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16 and Apollo 17. Apollo 13 almost suffered a tragedy due to an accident on board. It was decided to cancel the landing on the Moon, the crew was ordered to transfer from the service module to the landing module, and were emergency sent back to earth.
Especially for the readers of this blog, I posted all 9,000 photographs and made a selection of photographs from several expeditions of the Apollo lunar program.
02. Apollo 11 Expedition - July 20, 1969 First successful landing on the Moon| The lunar lander carrying Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin has undocked from the service module and is heading towards the surface of the Moon. The third crew member, Michael Collins, remained in the service module.
03. The first photo of the surface of the Moon after landing.
04. Unfortunately, this collection does not contain photographs of the exit of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon. From the porthole, the staircase down which Armstrong was descending was not visible. His exit was recorded only by a television camera mounted on an external stand, through which a live broadcast was made to Earth. A few minutes later, Armstrong moved her to another location. All that Edwin Aldrin could photograph in those minutes was the American flag that Armstrong stuck into the lunar soil and a television camera standing in the distance.
05. If a photojournalist had been on the Moon at that time, Armstrong’s exit he filmed might have looked something like this. Here Armstrong filmed Aldrin's entrance. At this moment it was important not to slam the hatch behind us. There was no handle on the outside of the exit hatch. If the hatch had slammed shut, the astronauts would have been unable to enter the module and return to Earth.
06. As you know, the first words that Neil Armstrong uttered when he first stepped onto the lunar surface were: “One small step for man, but giant leap for mankind.”
07. Footprint of one of the astronauts in the lunar soil.
08. Few people know that the first object that the astronauts threw onto the surface from open door, there was a bag of garbage (!). Very human, isn't it?
09. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin walk on the moon. One poses, the other takes photographs.
10. Lunar workdays have begun. Edwin Aldrin installs a solar wind collector screen. It was a leaf aluminum foil 30 cm wide and 140 cm long and was intended to trap helium, neon and argon ions.
12. Edwin Aldrin deploys a seismometer.
14. Soil samples are taken.
15. Edwin Aldrin poses next to the flag. This photo has been the subject of heated debate for many years. Conspiracy theorists argued that the supposedly waving flag indicates that the filming was done not on the moon, but on the earth, and here the action of the wind fluttering the flag is evident. Fortunately, anyone can now go into the photo archive of this expedition and view all the photographs that were taken that day. The bend of the flag fabric is the same in all photographs, which eloquently demonstrates the absurdity of conspiracy theorists’ suspicions. When the wind moves the fabric of the flag, its shape will change every second and it is almost impossible to repeat it.
16. It is known that when preparing the first expedition to the Moon, engineers proceeded from the assumption that over the billions of years of the moon’s history, a layer of dust several feet thick had accumulated on its surface. Therefore, the “legs” of the landing module were made long, with the expectation that during landing they would drown in dust. To the surprise of NASA developers and engineers, the layer of dust on the Moon turned out to be no more than 3-5 cm. Does this indicate the young age of the Moon, and therefore the Earth? There's a lot to think about.
17. The astronauts spent 2.5 hours on the lunar surface. When they returned to the lander, they threw away a few more items that they no longer needed - portable life support packs (the same ones they carried with them), lunar outer boots and a camera (the tapes with the footage were, of course, saved ). This was necessary to minimize the take-off weight of the module.
18. Commemorative plaque: “At this place, people from planet Earth first set foot on the Moon in July 1969 AD. We come in peace on behalf of all mankind.” The lower block of the landing module, on the stand of which the sign was attached, remained on the Moon.
19. The road home. The Apollo 11 lunar lander, after taking off from the Moon, approaches the command module that was waiting for it in orbit.
20. Apollo 12 Expedition - November 19, 1969. Second moon landing| Earth rising over the Moon.
21. Another Earthrise. Continuous phrase: "Earthrise."
22. View of the lunar surface from the landing module window.
23. Night on Earth.
24. One of the main tasks of the Apollo 12 crew was to find an automatic spacecraft Surveyor 3, which landed on the Moon 2.5 years earlier. The crew successfully completed this task and landed the lunar module 200 meters from the Surveyor. In the photo, crew commander Charles Conrad stands next to the Surveyor 3 spacecraft. The astronauts removed some parts from it and took it with them to earth. Scientists were interested in how these objects were affected by their long stay on the Moon. The Apollo 12 lander is in the background.
25. Apollo 15 Expedition - July 30, 1971. Fourth moon landing| This expedition was the first time a lunar vehicle was used.
26. Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin spent almost three days on the Moon. During this time, they made three trips to the surface with a total duration of 18.5 hours.
27. Wheel tracks of a lunar car. The astronauts traveled 28 kilometers on it.
28. One of the astronauts installs scientific equipment.
29. The lunar car was developed by Boeing engineers. The wheels are made of woven steel wire. The car ran on electric batteries and could reach speeds of up to 13 km/h, and even more. However, high speed was undesirable, since under the conditions of the Moon the lunar car weighed 6 times less than on earth, and at high speed it was thrown up strongly on uneven surfaces.
30. Relatively weak gravity was the reason that when walking, a lot of lunar dust rose, which settled on clothes. Pay attention to the astronaut's feet, black with dust.
31. Apollo 16 Expedition - April 21, 1972. Fifth moon landing| Unlike previous landings, which were made on more or less flat surfaces, Apollo 16 landed on mountainous area, on the plateau.
32. Morning jog?))
33. The astronauts have clearly gotten comfortable on the Moon. A lunar car parked near the landing module, scientific equipment, and a working astronaut. There is no longer that wariness and uncertainty that is visible in the photographs of Apollo 11.
34. One of the astronauts got the lens dirty.
35. A beautiful shot of the Earth suspended in space. We humans live somewhere on this planet. We are born, we die, we create something, we fight for some reason.... How petty and insignificant all this seems from afar, from space.
36. The surface of the Moon as the lunar module approaches.
37. Apollo 17 Expedition - December 11, 1972. Sixth and final moon landing| Thanks to the lunarmobile, astronauts were able to move several kilometers away from the landing module and descend to the bottom of huge craters.
38. During the next landing in the lunar vehicle, crew commander Eugene Cernan hooked the wing above one of the wheels with a hammer sticking out of his pocket and tore it off. If on Earth such a breakdown is not considered serious, then on the Moon everything is different. Due to the absence of a wing, dust rose during movement, which settled on the astronauts’ clothes and on the instruments of the lunar vehicle. The black color of the dust attracted heat and created the threat of overheating. The astronauts had to urgently look for a way out of the situation. They managed to attach the wing using duct tape.
39. Collection of soil samples. The astronaut's clothes are stained with lunar dust.
40. Lunomobile against the backdrop of one of the mountains.
41. Lunar relief.
42. Return of the last lunar expedition. Dawn on Earth.
43. Huge ocean spaces. Oh, if only part of these spaces were dry land.
44. Our dear blue ball.
46. The relief surface of the Moon and the rising Earth.
48. The astronauts who visited the Moon were the only people who could look at the lunar craters without a telescope.
49. During the Apollo 17 expedition, the astronauts drilled 8 wells 2.5 meters deep. Explosives weighing from 50 grams to 2.5 kg were placed in the wells. After the astronauts left the Moon, on command from Earth, the explosives were detonated and scientists used instruments to measure the speed of propagation of seismic waves.
50. On his way home, astronaut Ronald Evans performs a routine inspection of his spacecraft.
52. Crew commander Eugene Cernan and astronaut Ronald Evans.
53. What kind of device is so unusual? Looks like someone's brain under glass.
54. Ronald Evans shaves on his way to Earth.
55. The Command and Service Module America awaits docking with the lunar module that last launched from the surface of the Moon. The flight of Apollo 17 became the longest manned flight to the Moon. A record number of lunar rock samples were brought to Earth. Records were set for the duration of astronaut stay on the lunar surface and in lunar orbit. Apollo 17 was the most productive and almost problem-free lunar expedition.
56. More than 40 years have passed since the last time man walked on the moon. Will people return to the moon again? And is there any point in flying to the Moon again if it is now known for certain that there is nothing valuable there?
57. The Apollo lunar program is completed. The last look at the mountain range on the surface of the Moon, which rises above the Earth every night and illuminates our fields with its white light, is reflected as a light path in our seas, and shines through our windows while we sleep.
Photos: NASA
A photo archive of all 9,000 photographs in full resolution can be found on photo hosting
It seems like a tabloid invention, but in fact the conspiracy theory was launched into the world by Bill Kaysing, a former employee of Rocketdyne, which built engines for the Apollo lunar program. This looks like counter-propaganda made in KGB, but any doubts about the reality of American flights to the Moon were repeatedly rejected by cosmonauts and Soviet specialists in rocketry. The engineers' arguments are powerless here; we are talking about psychology. Despite comprehensive documentation of the landing, including by specialists from the USSR space department competing with NASA - radar data, observations through telescopes, received signals from on board, recordings of astronauts' conversations, television pictures - for almost 50 years the Moon conspiracy theory has not lost popularity.
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According to various estimates, from 6 to 20% of Americans believe that flights to the Moon were not made, and the published photos and videos were filmed in pavilions on Earth. Conspiracy theorists outside the United States are even more active. On October 1, 2015, the Russian crowdfunding platform Boomstarter began raising money for the creation of a microsatellite capable of going to the Moon in order to photograph in high resolution traces of the landings of NASA astronauts or to refute their presence. Although the authors of the project expected to collect 800,000 rubles in a month, after three days more than a million was credited to their account.
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Paradoxically, it is the large body of documentary material left by the Apollo program that fuels the opinion that it was not carried out. In particular, at least half of the dozens of arguments by deniers of the moon landing are based on an analysis of photographs taken there. The recent publication on Flickr in 1,800 dpi resolution will certainly add new force to the discussion. Bird In Flight selected some of them to illustrate the pros and cons of the conspiracy theory.
Photo quality
Statement. The photographs from the Moon are too high quality, as if they were taken in a studio, but they were taken by non-professionals in a hostile environment.
Explanation. The astronauts carried the best medium format camera of the time - the Hasselblad 500EL with Zeiss Planar f/2.8 80mm and Zeiss Sonnar f/5.6 250mm lenses, as well as the latest Hasselblad 500EL Data Camera with a NASA-specific Zeiss Biogon f/5.6 60mm lens . Each camera was carefully calibrated, and Apollo crews received intensive training in photography while wearing thick spacesuit gloves and without the use of a viewfinder, which was hampered by a helmet.
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Film safety
Statement. The film should have melted due to the high daytime temperatures on the Moon.
Explanation. Indeed, the Sun heats the surface of the Moon to 120 °C, but the film used by astronauts on a special heat-resistant base could only begin to melt at 260 °C. At the same time, the camera body protected it from direct sunlight, and the vacuum created excellent thermal insulation.
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Shadows
Statement. With the only light source being the Sun, shadows from astronauts and equipment should fall in the same direction. In the photo they fall differently, as if the scene is illuminated by several spotlights.
Explanation. To avoid high temperatures, astronauts always landed on the Moon when the Sun was low above its horizon and the rays fell gently. Therefore, hills and craters greatly changed the direction and length of the shadows. They were also influenced by the laws of perspective, where shadows seem to tend to converge on one point on the horizon.
Stars
Statement. The stars are not visible in the photographs. At that time it was difficult to calculate what it would look like starry sky from the surface of the Moon, and NASA decided to remove them from the images altogether.
Explanation. Firstly, for shooting with cameras of that time on a bright sunlight the surface of the Moon had to be placed the most short shutter speed, which did not allow us to work out specks of stars in a completely black sky. On long exposure, on the contrary, it was possible to capture the stars, but at the same time the really important objects for that shooting would go into the overexposure area: astronauts, landscape elements, the descent module. Secondly, the stars are still visible - in some of the photos taken from a dimly lit cabin during the flight.
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Flag
Statement. In the airless space of the Moon, the flag cannot flutter as seen in the photo.
Explanation. The flag was wrinkled during the flight, and when it was installed by the first expedition, it was not possible to fully extend the horizontal bar of the L-shaped structure to which it was attached. The astronauts liked the random effect of “fluttering in the wind,” and in the future they deliberately did not deploy the structure completely.
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Module traces
Statement. It is impossible for the supports of the 17-ton Lunar Module and its rocket engines did not leave craters on the surface, and the footprints of the astronauts were clearly visible.
Explanation. Minus the fuel and oxidizer consumed during the flight and taking into account the weak lunar gravity, the module after landing weighed about 1,220 kilograms. Moreover, the area of its supports was significantly larger than that of the astronauts’ soles, which reduced the pressure on the surface.
During the last phase of landing, the rocket engine developed thrust several times less than the maximum, only compensating for the weight of the landing module so that it did not fall. According to calculations, the pressure on the surface at that moment was less than 1/10 of an atmosphere, which is completely insufficient for the formation of a crater.
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Footprints
Statement. The astronauts' footprints are so clear, as if they were left on wet sand, but there is no water on the Moon.
Explanation. The astronauts moved in leaps, leaving deep dents in the mass of lunar dust, which was never blown away by the wind. The clarity of the tracks is also explained by the lack of atmosphere - grains of sand untreated with water and air have sharp edges that adhere them to each other.
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Jumping height
Statement. The gravity on the Moon is 6 times less than on Earth, and accordingly you can jump 6 times higher there. However, for some reason the filmed jumps are too low.
Explanation. The adhesion force of the astronauts’ legs to the surface decreased proportionally, by a factor of 6, while their mass and inertia, taking into account the weight of the spacesuit, became even greater than on Earth. In such conditions, the astronauts avoided high jumps so as not to damage the life support systems in the spacesuit backpack when falling.
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In September 2002, Buzz Aldrin, a member of the Apollo 11 crew and the second man on the moon, arrived at a Los Angeles hotel for what he believed was an interview for a Japanese educational television program. However, at the entrance he was met by the famous conspiracy theorist Bart Sibrel, who in the form of an ultimatum demanded that he swear on the Bible that Aldrin had actually set foot on the lunar surface. After a brief altercation in which the astronaut was called a thief, a coward and a liar who took money for stories about unfulfilled exploits, 72-year-old Aldrin punched Sibrel in the jaw. Although the victim went to the police and the court, his actions were considered provocative, and no charges were brought against Aldrin.
“Our return to the moon now will not be an achievement. This would be a hell of a waste of resources, and most likely the Chinese would already meet us there. Sounds good: “Let's go back.” This time to stay!’ But I don’t understand why you would suddenly want to stay on the moon.”
Buzz Aldrin.
In high resolution from the Chang"e-2 lunar orbiter. Chinese scientists have compiled a global map of the Moon using photographs taken by the Chang"e-2 spacecraft with an unprecedented accuracy of 7 meters. Credit: China Space Program More global lunar images below.
Chinese scientists have compiled a high-resolution map of the entire Moon and released a series of global photographs of the Moon on Monday, February 6th.
The composite lunar maps were created from more than 700 high-resolution single photographs taken by China's Chang'e-2 spacecraft and published by the country's State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND), according to reports from the authorities. public administration Xinhua and new CCTV agencies.
"The map and photographs are high-resolution photographs of the completeness of the lunar surface that have been published so far," said Liu Dongkui, spokesman for the commander-in-chief of China's lunar probe project, Xinhua reported.
Of course, there are much higher resolution photographs of many single locations on the Moon, photographed from the orbit of other countries and from the surface by the lunar landing Apollo astronauts, as well as Russian and American landers and research mobile vehicles.
China has released a high-resolution global map of the Moon from the Chang'e-2 lunar orbiter. Credit: China Space Program.
Chang'e-2 is China's second lunar probe and it reached orbit around our nearest neighbor in space in October 2010. It was launched on October 1, 2010 and named after the legendary Chinese Moon Goddess.
The high-resolution photographs were taken between October 2010 and May 2011 using a charge-coupled device (CCD) stereo camera as the spacecraft flew overhead in a highly elliptical orbit at altitudes ranging from 15 km to 100 km.
Chang'e-2's maps have a resolution of 7 meters, which is 17 times greater than that of China's first lunar orbiter; Chang'e-1 launched in 2007.
Global lunar map of the Chinese lunar orbiter Chang'e-2. Credit: China Space Program
In fact, the maps are detailed enough that Chinese scientists were able to detect traces of the Apollo landers, said Yan Yun, chief application scientist for the China Lunar Exploration Project.
Chang'e-2 also captured high-resolution images of the Sinus Iridum region, or Gulf of Rainbows, where China could land its next mission. The camera had a resolution of 1 meter at its lowest height.
The satellite left lunar orbit in June 2011 and currently orbits the Moon at the second Lagrange point (L2), located more than 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.
Chinese officials space program hope to launch in 2013 the lunar exploration module Chang'e-3, which was the first to land on another astronomical body. China's next step after the research module may be to attempt a mission in 2017.
Demonstrating the ability to successfully conduct an unmanned lunar landing is a key milestone that must be achieved before China can land astronauts on the Moon, possibly within the next decade.
NASA's GRAIL twins recently reached lunar orbit in new year holidays. The probe duo was simply renamed "Ebb and Flow" - the winning contestants in a naming contest submitted by 4th year US students from Bozeman, Montana.
At this time, NASA does not have a funded or approved robotic lunar landing mission due to severe budget cuts. And even harmful NASA cuts will soon be announced!
Russia hopes to send the Lunar Glob spacecraft around 2015.
Since the US unilaterally killed its plans to return to the US, it is very possible that the next flag placed on the people will be Chinese.
Space has always interested man, and the Moon, as the closest object, has become a subject close attention. On June 30, 1964, NASA's Ranger program took the first close-up images of the Moon and began collecting information in preparation for a human mission to the Moon. Since that time, the number of photographs has grown steadily, and with them the number of lunar mysteries has grown. What professionals and amateurs didn’t find in the photographs of our neighbor...
A strange object above the lunar horizon, captured by Lunokhod 2.
In different places of the Earth's satellite, traces were taken, presumably left by rolling boulders.
The first photographs of such phenomena appeared in the early 1970s, and their collection is still growing.
The smaller object in this image, the one that took the longer path, somehow rose out of the crater before continuing down the slope.
This photo was taken with using Google Moon: on the reverse side of the satellite near the Sea of Moscow, when very close, you can see a strange object - seven points located at right angles.
This image was captured by the Clementine space station's HIRES camera. The structure, which has suffered from erosion, has a distinctly rectangular anatomy.
And this is a crater taken on the far side of the Moon, which looks more like a hole in the surface. This type of crater has been called “collapse crater,” and ufologists suspect that it is nothing more than the remains of underground lunar structures.
The crater in this photo is completely rectangular in shape, which contradicts the laws of nature.
These are the craters Messier and Messier A. Also a strange shape, similar to the fact that they are connected by a tunnel.
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A photo taken by the American Lunar Orbiter probe on the far side of the Moon. In the Sea of Crises, near the Picard crater, there rises an amazing “tower” resembling an artificial structure.
Skeptics believe that this “moon tower” is simply a defect in film processing, but judging by the enlarged fragment of the image, the object seems quite real.
The second Lunar Orbiter find is even more controversial: image number LO3-84M shows a strange structure almost two km high.
The shadow of the object and its unevenness in reflected light are clearly visible, as if it were made of glass.
An anomaly in the form of an unusual rectangle in a lunar crater was found by modern virtual archaeologists in one of the publicly available photos of the Apollo 10 mission.
Mystery lovers believe that the lens captured the entrance to some kind of dungeon.
And this is a photograph of a relief reminiscent of ruins on Earth.
On October 30, 2007, the former head of NASA's lunar laboratory photography service, Ken Johnston, and writer Richard Hoagland held a press conference in Washington, which immediately appeared on all news channels around the world.
They stated that at one time American astronauts discovered on the Moon the ruins of ancient cities and artifacts indicating the existence on it in the distant past of a certain highly developed civilization.
And this is a pyramidal elevation on the dark side of the Moon.
The Chinese lunar satellite Chang'e-2, launched on October 1, 2010, discovered such objects.
The pictures were published by Alex Collier, who is known for retelling messages coming from space from aliens.
Here are more photographs of the surface of the Moon, which depict structures of interesting shapes.
Some kind of design.
Relief of unusual shape.
The outlines of the buildings can be clearly seen in the photograph.
Another object that seems artificial.
A similar glow on the dark side of the Moon has been seen many times.
And this strangely shaped stone very much resembles a skull.
Unidentified object on the surface of the Moon.
A sensational article appeared in the American newspaper The New York Times: “A human skeleton was discovered on the Moon.” The publication refers to Chinese astrophysicist Mao Kang, who presented this photo at a conference in Beijing.
NASA released these images taken by cameras installed on the twin satellites Ebb and Flow, one of which flew over the rectangular-shaped object.
Lunar “buildings” again.
Not long ago, ufologists from Secure Team 10 discovered a “tank” in one of the NASA images.
And a popular American ufologist under the nickname Streetcap1 found an “alien base” in the photographs reverse side Moons taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter probe.
This is a photo of the Moon's surface published by former employee NASA by Ken Johnson: in its center you can see the Apollo mission module, but on the left side there are several mysterious dots.
Most of the points are located in even parallel rows, which is extremely rare for natural formations.
New NASA research has revealed that the Moon has mysterious swirling patterns of light and dark spots. They are found in more than a hundred different places throughout the surface.
On November 25, 2015, an amateur astronomer named Dennis Simmons captured in his telescope photograph the International Space Station, which should be at an altitude of about 400 km from the surface of the Earth, but for some reason in the photo it is located right next to the Moon.
Another Australian, Tom Haredine, also photographed the station there on November 21, 2015.
It turns out that either the ISS flew to the Moon, or astronomers took a photo of an unknown object similar to an earth station.
A lot of noise has been made on the Internet by footage that clearly shows an “alien” roaming the surface of the Moon.
On September 15, 2012, one of the amateur astronomers published a video on the Internet in which you can see how a whole flock of small luminous objects comes off the surface of one of the craters.
A UFO was also discovered over the lunar surface in footage taken by the Apollo 10 mission.
And this huge elongated “alien ship” “buried” its nose into the lunar soil, apparently during an unsuccessful landing.
This object with a “tail” of light was discovered by ufologists in footage from the Apollo 11 mission.
The UFO resembles a projectile or a flying ship.
This group of lights separated from the surface of the Earth's satellite.
The photo of an unusual object above the lunar horizon was taken by Apollo 17 pilot Harrison Schmidt.
“Straight wall” is the name given to a perfectly flat formation almost 75 km long.
On January 2, 1839, French photographer and scientist Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon. After this, interest in the Earth's satellite only increased, and many professionals and amateurs diligently photographed this celestial body. We will tell you about five photographs of the Moon that have gone down in history.
The first photograph of the Moon was taken by Louis Daguerre on January 2, 1839. As you know, Daguerre was one of the founders of photography. Only in August 1839 was the process of obtaining a daguerreotype, that is, a photographic image, introduced to the general public. The public saw a not very high-quality, by today's standards, of course, black and white image of the Moon.
In 1840, the American scientist John William Draper took a clear photograph of the Earth's satellite, without having precise instruments for tracking celestial bodies. This photograph demonstrated the promise of photography in science. The photo was no different high quality, however, it gave general idea about what the moon looks like.
Draper, 1840
The hidden side of the moon
In October 1959, the spacecraft Soviet Union Luna 3 (the third spacecraft successfully launched to the Moon) captured the far side of the Moon for the first time. The photographs were captured and dried on board the ship, and then returned to Earth. The images are considered quite blurry by today's standards, but they clearly show the stark difference between the hidden part of the Moon and what is visible from Earth. In particular, the image shows dark areas called lunar maria.
Far Side of the Moon, 1959
Lunar landscape
In April 1972, the crew spaceship Apollo 16 captured the landscape of the far side of the Moon using Swedish Hasselblad equipment. The picture was taken after the planet descended to the dark side of the Earth's satellite. American ship with John Young as expedition commander. In the background is the blue planet Earth, about half of which is hidden in darkness.
Apollo 16, 1972. Photo: NASA/ZUMA Press/Global Look Press
Photos of Apollo 11
Another photograph of American astronauts has become iconic and famous throughout the world. This photo was taken by the astronauts who landed on the surface of the Moon for the first time in history in July 1969. The image shows the surface of the Moon with traces of human presence on it. In the center of the photo is Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who accompanied the famous Neil Armstrong on his walk on the Moon. This photo is one of several that show Armstrong walking on the Moon - in this case, Armstrong is seen reflected off the spacesuit of Aldrin's space suit.
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