Lunar 3-D products

[SCHENK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Lunaphiles and moon-lovers,
All this talk about lunar stereo is quite interesting.  we have been in 
the process of gathering together some lunar stereo products for a
new web page at the Lunar & Planetary Institute.  The page is devoted to
lunar exploration and the apollo missions but wont be open till March, 
but Ive extracted some of our products into a separate page for general 
viewing.  These include a few of the surface closeups, as well as vertical 
orbital stereo pairs for each landing site.  We are also working on a 
"movie" incorporating some of the orbital stereo photography.  There
is a lot of material out there, but it takes time and often special processing
to bring out.  Routing out the surface 3-d is particularly timeconsuming.
The plan for this material is to develop a Solar System 3-D page at
the institute.  I already have a lot of other planetary material,
some of which was previewed in the March/April 95 issue of Stereo World.
These and other similar images will be added to this "page" in the next 1-3
months.  Ultimately, these products will be used to produce topographic
maps of these bodies. In the meantime, I expect the 1st batch of lunar stuff 
will be available by Tuesday.  These are somewhat experimental and
i would appreciate feedback on format, viewability, etc, on the images and
the captions, because nonstereophiles will ultimately be viewing them too.
Comments can be sent via PHOTO-3D, or to me at "schenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx".

The page location is http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/lpi.html.  Click on 
"Hot Topics" and the rest should be easy.  Ive formated some of them 
in both anaglyph and side-by-side format.  Also i am going to pass on 
the questions that have been appearing to our research staff and hopefully
we can incorporate some of the information into the support material.
The institute has a library of lunar stock photography, and as we go through
it we will be searching for additional stereo pairs.

Paul Schenk
Staff Scientist
Lunar & Planetary Institute


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