Arizona State University has partnered with NASA to scan the space-flown film in an effort to create a new,
high-resolution digital archive for both researchers and the general public on the Internet.
Begun in June 2007 and expected to take three years to complete, the {Apollo Image Archive}
is the first project to make digital scans of all the lunar photographs - both from orbit
and on the surface - captured during NASA's Apollo missions.
"This project fulfills a long-held wish of mine," said Mark Robinson, principal investigator
for the camera that will fly on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, due for launch in October 2008.
"It'll give everyone a chance to see this unique collection of images as clearly as when they were taken.
" Robinson is also a professor at ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration.
"We worked with the scanner's manufacturer - Leica Geosystems - to improve the brightness range that
the scans record," explained Robinson. In technical terms, a normal 12-bit scan was increased to 14-bit,
resulting in digital images that record more than 16,000 shades of gray.
"Similarly," added Robinson, "to get all the details captured by the film, we are scanning at a scale
of 200 pixels per millimeter." As a result, the grain of the original film is visible when the scans
are fully enlarged.
The most detailed images from lunar orbit show rocks and other surface features about 40 inches (1m) wide.
In raw form, the scans of the Apollo mapping frames, each 4.7 inches square, are 1.3 gigabytes in size.
Users can also download images in several sizes, up to the full raw scan.
When finished, the archive will include about 600 frames in 35 mm, roughly 20,000 Hasselblad 70 mm frames
(color, and black and white), more than 10,000 mapping camera frames and about 4,600 panoramic cam frames.
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