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Does anyone know how we got such high quality (live?) video of astronauts walking on the moon, but recent moon missions like LCROSS [1] didn't even have video A
by tocomment 14y ago
Does anyone know how we got such high quality (live?) video of astronauts walking on the moon, but recent moon missions like LCROSS [1] didn't even have video AFAIK?
[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_results.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_r...
- andyjohnson0 14y agoAccording to Wikipedia, LCROSS had one visible light camera, as well has four infra-red cameras. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCROSS#Instruments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCROSS#Instruments. Presumably they were still cameras. It was looking for water on the moon, so my guess would be that video just wasn't important.
- sosuke 14y agoMost missions don't value natural light photography over other spectrum specializations and a video of the moon without anyone jumping on it would be pretty boring.