NASA's GRAIL MoonKAM’s Final Looks at the Moon [video]. - Polidicks

[TABLE="class: outer_border, width: 800, align: left"] [TR] [TD] [TABLE="width: 640, align: center"] [TR] [TD][h2]New Video Shows the GRAIL MoonKAM’s Final Looks at the Moon[/h2][B]Three days prior to its planned impact on a lunar mountain, mission controllers activated the camera aboard one of NASA's GRAIL twins to take some final photos from lunar orbit.[/B][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][video=youtube;PODCa9sA34A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PODCa9sA34A[/video][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD] [TABLE="width: 500, align: center"] [TR] [TD]As a fond farewell, here are some of the final images taken by the GRAIL MoonKAM educational cameras on board Ebb and Flow, the twin spacecraft for the mission. This footage was shot just three days prior to when the mission ended with the planned impacts on a rim of a crater near the lunar north pole. At that point in the mission, the spacecraft had lowered their orbit to only about 11 km above the lunar surface. While these images aren’t of the highest of resolution, they provide a great sense of what it would be like to orbit close to the Moon. Additionally, they are an inspiration to school children. With MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students) the cameras took more than 115,000 total images of the lunar surface, and imaging targets were proposed by middle school students from across the country and the resulting images returned for them to study. The two probes were purposely crashed into the Moon because they no longer had enough altitude or fuel to continue science operations.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][B]SOURCE: [/B] [URL]http://www.universetoday.com/99374/new-video-shows-the-grail-moonkams-final-looks-at-the-moon/[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Magnificent!

It's so low, you really get a feeling for the speed

what's with all the shitty after effects

Beautiful

[QUOTE=Irkalla;39172746]what's with all the shitty after effects[/QUOTE] You mean lens refraction from direct sunlight.. It's kind of hard to work around when you don't have a gigantic atmosphere to diffuse the light, ey?

[QUOTE=DrLuckyLuke;39172715]It's so low, you really get a feeling for the speed[/QUOTE] its sped up times 6 they were cameras not camcorders

It's really hard for me to get a sense of size with pictures of the moon. So monochromatic, you can't distinguish a mountain from a 3 foot hill

wow that's amazing

Maybe it's the framerate, but I'm getting a real Star Wars vibe from it. The opening scene where the Star Destroyer pans over the camera. And to think: we [i]landed[/i] on that shit

It's CGI. Look at all the flat textures. I'm an expert in this. The moon is conspiracy. No really, It reminds me of something I'd see in a 60's Sci-FI movie. It's pretty awesome.