Apollo 15 Rectified Stereo Panorama - Left and Right Eye Imagery

  • Released Friday, August 1, 2008
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This page provides a rectified and digitally corrected stereoscopic panoramic pair from Apollo mission 15, featuring craters Krieger, Rocco and Ruth. The imagery is provided for left and right eye separately and in various dimensions. This stereoscopic pair served as the source material for entry:
#3530: Apollo 15 Rectified Anaglyph Stereo Panorama
You can navigate the online image by using the zoom and pan controls at the bottom center of the online image viewer and use the inset red box at the upper left corner as a reference. The imagery in the online viewer has been provided for cross-eyed viewing purposes. For related content and more information, please visit:
#3529: Apollo 15 Rectified Stereo Stills: KRIEGER

Data Notes:
August 4, 1971
The lunar stereo still imagery provided in this page used as source material archived panoramic recitifed film photographs. Nearly all the panoramic photographs from the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions have been rectified and are archived in the NASA/GSFC campus. The rectification process corrected the camera and viewing distortions, as it results in a vertical projection of the lunar surface.The rectified photographs are more accurate for stereoscopic use than the original panoramic photographs. Detailed information is provided below:

Image Collection: Panoramic
Mission: 15
Magazine: P
Camera: 610-mm (24-in.) ITEK panoramic camera
Revolution: 72
Latitude/Longitude: 29° N/ 45°W
Lens Focal Length: 24 inch
Stereo Pairs:AS15-P-10320 (Forward Camera Look), AS15-P-10325 (After Camera Look)
Camera Altitude: 109 km
Sun Elevation: 20°
Film type: 3414
Film Width: 5 inch
Image Width: 45.24 inch
Image Height: 4.5 inch
Film Color: black and white
Features: Craters Krieger, Rocco, Ruth

Low resolution lunar stereo imagery can be found at the Apollo Image Atlas Panoramic Catalog hosted by the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
For a detailed index map of panoramic camera photographs, composite of all REVs, please visit: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/apolloindex/apollo15/as15indexmap01/



Apollo 15 Stereoscopic Panoramas featuring craters: Krieger, Rocco and Ruth.
Imagery provided for cross-eyed viewing purposes.

Credits

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Apollo 15 rectified panoramic stereo film imagery is courtesy of Jay Friedlander (NASA/GSFC)

This page was originally published on Friday, August 1, 2008.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.

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