Digital archive casts new light on Apollo-era moon pictures
Arizona State University partners with NASA to digitize original photos
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Nearly 40 years after man first walked on the moon, the
complete lunar photographic record from the Apollo project will be
accessible to both researchers and the general public on the Internet. A
new digital archive -- created through a collaboration between Arizona
State University and NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston -- is making
available high-resolution scans of original Apollo flight films. They are
available to browse or download at:
http://apollo.sese.asu.edu
The digital scans are detailed enough to reveal photographic grain.
Created from original flight films transported back to Earth from the
moon, the archive includes photos taken from lunar orbit as well as from
the lunar surface. This is the first project to make digital scans of all
the original lunar photographs from NASA's Apollo missions.
"This project fulfills a long-held wish of mine.
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