The Planets and the Moon

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The Planets

New photos downloaded from Facebook.

 

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The Moon

Photos from Artimus II

 

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[nomadpete]

Wow.

Awesome pics.

I wonder,,, since our moon always has the same 'side' faving away from earth, does it actually stop a lot of incoming asteroids,etc, that would otherwise hit earth?

There seem to be some big impacts in these new pictures of the 'dark side'.

[facthunter]

I didn't see Planet "B" there, There's also an Asteroid Belt. 7% of Americans "think" the earth is FLAT. More cratering happens when there is No atmosphere. Just Imagine the State of your Mind IF you didn't believe in Science?   Nev

[onetrack]

Which one are we going to send Trump and Musk to, on a one-way trip? Musk want to go live on Mars - just any closer planet will be fine by me, as long as he stays there, incommunicado.

[willedoo]

31 minutes ago, onetrack said:

Which one are we going to send Trump and Musk to, on a one-way trip? Musk want to go live on Mars - just any closer planet will be fine by me, as long as he stays there, incommunicado.

All Elon would have to do is saddle him up, pull the plug and the hot air would propel them all the way.

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

Here's the Moon in 1969. I have a set of slides given to me by a photo lab for professional photographers in Sydney CBD. I've kept them all this time and only scanned them in Sep 2024. I can post more If you want to see them, there's 19 all up, different scenes.

 

[willedoo]

You've kept those slides in good condition by the look of it. I had heaps of old slides and didn't store them right in the humid climate and they're nearly all stuffed now.

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

These moon slides have always been in their own cardboard pack, a sort of fold out thing, and they've been up and down the East coast from Sydney to Cains, but never opened much. I was just keeping them as souvenirs. When I bought an Epson scanner, I decided to scan them.

 

I think this is the famous one, if I remember, published around the world. Click on it.

 

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

Did I say Cains? - I meant "Cairns"

[onetrack]

The photo quality is pretty good, when you consider the technology of the time for taking and sending photographs from the moon. I can recall a site saying the computers on Apollo 11 had less power than a 386 computer.

 

But they did have 4 of them, so I guess that helped. I wonder what those computers cost in 1969? Millions of dollars, I'll wager.

 

I have a copy of the front page of an American newspaper, printed the day after the Moon landing, the article about the Moon landing took up all the front page.

[Marty_d]

My son was telling me today that on whatever socials he uses, while there's a lot of people celebrating the Artemis mission, there's a few idiots saying it's all faked. Just like the original moon trips.  

Some people, you wonder how they remember to breathe.

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

Here's Mars with camera movement. I used a 14MP compact digital camera at full 3x zoom. This was when Mars was orbiting closest to Earth in Aug 2018. I've expanded the image for better viewing. I was just fooling about on the night and tried to hold the camera as still as possible for the 1sec exposure. Click on it.