lunar close up - beautiful

[Photohound]

takes a while to load at full res, awesome...

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/M162350671

slide the zoom bar at the bottom of the screen for jaw-dropping detail.

[hayju01]

WOW!!!!!!

[beamish]

I was NOT expecting that !! Jeez ! nearly scared the neighbours with the noise !

[space3]

thats mad,

i wana go their:eek:

[callisto]

are you kidding me

[zedds]

No way!!!!!

That is fantastic.

[budski]

Arrrghhh.... it makes my lunar pictures look a tad inferior.

I wonder what size the potato-shaped boulder is on top of the plateau?

[Rossco72]

I think i've seen better on here!!!!!

LOL, that's awesome, thanks for the link

[hayju01]

Arrrghhh.... it makes my lunar pictures look a tad inferior.

I wonder what size the potato-shaped boulder is on top of the plateau?

By my reckoning (and this just taking by 1440x900 and a tape measure) @ 162m X 129m; just a bit of fun so dont quote me

[Earl]

WOW, amazing image!

[Tim]

Arrrghhh.... it makes my lunar pictures look a tad inferior.

I wonder what size the potato-shaped boulder is on top of the plateau?

This was APOD a day or two back. Amazing image.

The scale is 1.5m/pixel, so count the pixels for the rock and then multiply by 1.5 to get its size in metres.

You can access all the images via the image browser, check out this one of the whole disc.

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/WAC_GL120

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse?page=6

Tim

[Brent]

Wow..... impressive. The peak is 2.4 km high but I would love the option to toggle an image of a human somewhere in there to give some scale.

[Photohound]

pretty spectacular indeed... it was APOD yesterday (6th july) i was so taken by it that i searched for the original - the zoom feature on this is SO much better than the APOD site - glad you folk like it as much as i do.

[Space Oddity6]

Incredible

[Keano]

Im not easily impressed but that engendered an expletive or two.

[Photohound]

Im not easily impressed but that engendered an expletive or two.

:D thats exactly what i mean...

[Rob1961]

Did you see yesterday's LPOD - that rock superimposed over a baseball stadium to give a sense of scale. For us in the UK it is a bit longer than a football pitch and a bit under twice the width

[Adamski]

That is unbeleiveble. The quality stays constant when you zoom right in. It's got to be the best pic of the moon i've ever seen. Cheers.

[RikM]

Really impressive.

[astro mick]

Budski.

If you read the full caption,its very interesting.That boulder is 120 meters across.

Mick.

[Mamsoth]

That's insane!!!

[inkpen]

Wow that is stunning!

[Hemsy]

That's Awesome.

[stick]

truly amazing shot

[MrsR]

NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!