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Are full size/larger images available somewhere? 1920x1280px seems low. Edit: Found 'em: https://images.nasa.gov/search?page=1&media=image&yearStart=1920&yearE

by _august 6mo ago

Are full size/larger images available somewhere? 1920x1280px seems low. Edit: Found 'em: https://images.nasa.gov/search?page=1&media=image&yearStart=1920&yearEnd=2026&keywords=Lunar%20Flyby https://images.nasa.gov/search?page=1&media=image&yearStart=...

spartanatreyu 6mo ago
And my screensaver folder grows larger...
dylan604 6mo ago
The external shots seem to just be from the GoPro strapped to a solar panel. Didn't seen anything that looked like the shots from the Nikons onboard. Was hoping for a couple, but I know I'm just being greedy wanting all the pics edit: exif data shows some are from a Nikon. I just want to see them all!!! My greedy line still plays
- tharkun__ 6mo ago
  Hah! Funny how everyone here seems to be thinking the same: They said something about "finally 4k moon rocket images" and the stuff we got in the news was like blurry 800x600 type with lots of JPEG artifacts and such. Even the smallest resolution images I see in the link that the parent edited into their comment have better quality than what news outlets posted. I want TIFFs that takes ages to download and I need to scroll around in/zoom out on!
  - dylan604 6mo ago
    They will be posted when they get them. Right now, NASA doesn't have them because they're still on the SD cards in the capsule (probably been copied to their PCDs too). There's not a lot of bandwidth to be pushing large RAW files. They have to share the bandwidth with all of the telemetry and comms. They sent some small files down just to make some PR announcements and tease what will be coming.
    - cruffle_duffle 6mo ago
      Coming soon to the moon near you: starlink!
    - adrianpike 6mo ago
      There's supposed to be a 260 megabit link: https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/esc/o2o/ https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/esc/o2o/ Maybe it's not operating as described yet?
      - consp 6mo ago
        Doesn't that require line of sight with limited receivers available? Maybe the current positioning is preventing it until the constellation changes. With the constellation that is the craft in respect to the two ground stations in a narrow patch of the US. I could not find anything about throughput rates except for the theoretical maximum but I also suspect that max is only in LEO.
      - adrian_b 6mo ago
        It is operating only when it can be pointed towards Earth, while also avoiding the Sun, which did not happen during the flyby. The laser is on one side of Orion, and when that side is not oriented towards Earth for various reasons, the optical communications cannot be used. For continuous communications, at least when there is no interposed body, like the Moon, multiple lasers located around Orion would be needed to ensure coverage. When by the far side of the Moon, a relay orbiting around the Moon would be needed.
      - em-bee 6mo ago
        i heard mention of 100 megabit. they downloaded 50GB of data the night after the flyby. they probably keep downloading as much as they can. and they still need to sift through all that to find the pictures worth publishing. they could do a data dump, but that's not interesting for the general public. the stuff is coming. slowly.
- niek_pas 6mo ago
  Maybe you’re being impatient, but I don’t think you’re being greedy. This is a publicly funded project. I’d say those photos belong in the public domain. Which they are.
aanet 6mo ago
I was hoping that they used a medium format camera like Hasselblad or something for the larger pics... but no such luck. I guess weight might have been one factor. Still, the pics are mind blowing. Out of this world, tbh
- dylan604 6mo ago
  A 20.8 megapixel 5568 x 3712 pixels is not a shitty image. When we get to see those images, they will be much better than the GoPro images we're seeing
  - adrian_b 6mo ago
    Some nice images with this resolution of the far side of the Moon have already been posted.
  - jiggawatts 6mo ago
    They also have a 46 megapixel Nikon Z9 which they don't appear to have used for some odd reason...
    - sorz 6mo ago
      I found one taken with Z9: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009301 https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009301 There are some very bright noise pixels on the dark area, which is different from the noise in similar photos taken with D5 (much darker and uniform).
      - jiggawatts 6mo ago
        A common error made with "pixel peeping" is to zoom to 1:1, which shows a smaller physical sensor area with higher megapixel cameras. The trick is to zoom to the same percentage zoom and compare side-by-side. I did spot a few "hot" pixels visible on the Moon, but those are easily fixed in post.
- RogerL 6mo ago
cbhl 6mo ago
To be fair they "only" have a 20 Mbps laser uplink from the capsule to Earth, and that's shared between all the systems and uploading images/video.
- _moof 6mo ago
  "Uplink" means Earth to spacecraft. Spacecraft to Earth is downlink.
- hyperbovine 6mo ago
  260Mbps? https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/esc/o2o/ https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/esc/o2o/
ChrisMarshallNY 6mo ago
Try this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/ I don’t see TIFFs, so I assume the originals were JPEG.
- cguess 6mo ago
  If anything the originals would be RAW files.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 6mo ago
    Maybe they were RAW + JPEG. That's fairly common. Could be, we see TIFFs, after they get back.
  - xiaoyu2006 6mo ago
    I believe those are taken largely with Nikon z9?
    - ChrisMarshallNY 6mo ago
      D5. Old Skool. I think they are specially modified for use in space.
      - gnabgib 6mo ago
        Both Z9 - last minute flight add (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55194523579/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55194523579/) D5 - two of them (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55194768276/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55194768276/) GoPro HERO4 - Some (4?) on the solar (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55193566011/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55193566011/) iPhone 17 Pro Max - Although, one failed the first day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55193337359/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55193337359/)
- deleted 6mo ago
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farmerbb 6mo ago
It looks like changing the `~large` in the image filename to `~orig` gets you the full size versions.
modeless 6mo ago
Thanks, these make some kickass ultrawide wallpapers.
gasi 6mo ago
You can view them in full resolution here: https://zoomhub.net/showcase/photography/nasa https://zoomhub.net/showcase/photography/nasa
foobarbecue 6mo ago
Should eventually be on pds atlas I hope. https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/ https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/
beaconfield 6mo ago
thank you

by _august 6mo ago

spartanatreyu 6mo ago

And my screensaver folder grows larger...

dylan604 6mo ago

The external shots seem to just be from the GoPro strapped to a solar panel. Didn't seen anything that looked like the shots from the Nikons onboard. Was hoping for a couple, but I know I'm just being greedy wanting all the pics edit: exif data shows some are from a Nikon. I just want to see them all!!! My greedy line still plays

tharkun__ 6mo ago
Hah! Funny how everyone here seems to be thinking the same: They said something about "finally 4k moon rocket images" and the stuff we got in the news was like blurry 800x600 type with lots of JPEG artifacts and such. Even the smallest resolution images I see in the link that the parent edited into their comment have better quality than what news outlets posted. I want TIFFs that takes ages to download and I need to scroll around in/zoom out on!
- dylan604 6mo ago
  They will be posted when they get them. Right now, NASA doesn't have them because they're still on the SD cards in the capsule (probably been copied to their PCDs too). There's not a lot of bandwidth to be pushing large RAW files. They have to share the bandwidth with all of the telemetry and comms. They sent some small files down just to make some PR announcements and tease what will be coming.
  - cruffle_duffle 6mo ago
    Coming soon to the moon near you: starlink!
  - adrianpike 6mo ago
    There's supposed to be a 260 megabit link: https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/esc/o2o/ https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/esc/o2o/ Maybe it's not operating as described yet?
    - consp 6mo ago
      Doesn't that require line of sight with limited receivers available? Maybe the current positioning is preventing it until the constellation changes. With the constellation that is the craft in respect to the two ground stations in a narrow patch of the US. I could not find anything about throughput rates except for the theoretical maximum but I also suspect that max is only in LEO.
    - adrian_b 6mo ago
      It is operating only when it can be pointed towards Earth, while also avoiding the Sun, which did not happen during the flyby. The laser is on one side of Orion, and when that side is not oriented towards Earth for various reasons, the optical communications cannot be used. For continuous communications, at least when there is no interposed body, like the Moon, multiple lasers located around Orion would be needed to ensure coverage. When by the far side of the Moon, a relay orbiting around the Moon would be needed.
    - em-bee 6mo ago
      i heard mention of 100 megabit. they downloaded 50GB of data the night after the flyby. they probably keep downloading as much as they can. and they still need to sift through all that to find the pictures worth publishing. they could do a data dump, but that's not interesting for the general public. the stuff is coming. slowly.
niek_pas 6mo ago
Maybe you’re being impatient, but I don’t think you’re being greedy. This is a publicly funded project. I’d say those photos belong in the public domain. Which they are.

aanet 6mo ago

I was hoping that they used a medium format camera like Hasselblad or something for the larger pics... but no such luck. I guess weight might have been one factor. Still, the pics are mind blowing. Out of this world, tbh

dylan604 6mo ago
A 20.8 megapixel 5568 x 3712 pixels is not a shitty image. When we get to see those images, they will be much better than the GoPro images we're seeing
- adrian_b 6mo ago
  Some nice images with this resolution of the far side of the Moon have already been posted.
- jiggawatts 6mo ago
  They also have a 46 megapixel Nikon Z9 which they don't appear to have used for some odd reason...
  - sorz 6mo ago
    I found one taken with Z9: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009301 https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009301 There are some very bright noise pixels on the dark area, which is different from the noise in similar photos taken with D5 (much darker and uniform).
    - jiggawatts 6mo ago
      A common error made with "pixel peeping" is to zoom to 1:1, which shows a smaller physical sensor area with higher megapixel cameras. The trick is to zoom to the same percentage zoom and compare side-by-side. I did spot a few "hot" pixels visible on the Moon, but those are easily fixed in post.
RogerL 6mo ago

cbhl 6mo ago

To be fair they "only" have a 20 Mbps laser uplink from the capsule to Earth, and that's shared between all the systems and uploading images/video.

_moof 6mo ago
"Uplink" means Earth to spacecraft. Spacecraft to Earth is downlink.
hyperbovine 6mo ago
260Mbps? https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/esc/o2o/ https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/esc/o2o/

ChrisMarshallNY 6mo ago

Try this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/ I don’t see TIFFs, so I assume the originals were JPEG.

cguess 6mo ago
If anything the originals would be RAW files.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6mo ago
  Maybe they were RAW + JPEG. That's fairly common. Could be, we see TIFFs, after they get back.
- xiaoyu2006 6mo ago
  I believe those are taken largely with Nikon z9?
  - ChrisMarshallNY 6mo ago
    D5. Old Skool. I think they are specially modified for use in space.
    - gnabgib 6mo ago
      Both Z9 - last minute flight add (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55194523579/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55194523579/) D5 - two of them (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55194768276/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55194768276/) GoPro HERO4 - Some (4?) on the solar (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55193566011/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55193566011/) iPhone 17 Pro Max - Although, one failed the first day (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55193337359/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55193337359/)
deleted 6mo ago
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farmerbb 6mo ago

It looks like changing the `~large` in the image filename to `~orig` gets you the full size versions.

modeless 6mo ago

Thanks, these make some kickass ultrawide wallpapers.

gasi 6mo ago

You can view them in full resolution here: https://zoomhub.net/showcase/photography/nasa https://zoomhub.net/showcase/photography/nasa

foobarbecue 6mo ago

Should eventually be on pds atlas I hope. https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/ https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/

beaconfield 6mo ago

thank you