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Article

Publication Date

4-26-1978

Abstract

on each- or the last three Apolio lunar used to take orbital photorraphs of tha Moon, photomapa have been made of aoproxinatelly 15% 14250,000 seale and of selected areas at maps are better tban those avallable for many miasions, two camera systems" were Prom these photographa ortho- or the lunar aurface at a 1:50,000 to 1:10,000 scales. These areas of the Barth. Photography from Farth orbit on the Soyus missions also established the utility or manping the Earth. Por example, photorraphe used to map maļor fault systems and subs4diary tvnes ih desert reglons, and to determine However, the resolution of these photcgreghs, below whet ls regulred for detalled study and Qemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo- color f1lm in studying and fror theee miasions nave been fractures, to nlansify sofl groxth patterns of river deltas, 1ike that of Landsat data, 1s mapping. programs that apply what order to abtain better photo- so-designated fLarge mapping quallty, stereo, coler ari/or black-and-white The Space Shuttle nrogram x111 oren the way nas been learned from prevtous space miasions in graphs of the Earth. This w1ll be done by using thg Pormat camera," which will permit tne ecgulattion or and htsh-resoiutton (10 to.20 m) photerrarhsl on for camora (305mm, t/6 lena) denlvee 1tt name rrom-the_size or indlvidual cach frametls aooroxlmately 23 cm 4g 4ith a uo x 74 degree d-ot-view, The frame overlap can bé at up to 80f ta allox tor the stereb maning accuracy. Eage fiduc1a) mark- constitute the. eallhratien neference, end the radial distortion measured to +L0 etsugk mhe camera's framing rate vanteg jnom un te aeconda Tfor use gltltudes The seatral range a0 tho camara 1s 400 to.900 nanometers, system reaoluticn ia measured to be 100 1ines/mm (1000:1 contrast) 1Ines/rm (2:1contrast). [Th1s rram@95 hed at varlous ng)5tyg NASA presently plans to fly thé Larze Pormat Carera on an eerly Shuttle ntsalor thototraphy from-the.firat-fligntlu111.matnly.be_uned'ty_the.U.S. Geal 1og2c44 cther agenc 1eg to undate cld toporraphic maca and compile pnes and" also be avallable fop artalled G tudy and rozource Curveys necausc of the low erbtt ineiinatton of thefinst Shuttld niastons mately 309) the covered areas ₩1ll be restrioted to the equatertal zone or the E ths) aodittor tortta utillty in phatokrabia11 the Large Ter hten-sit-tide ceriat Earth orbity rát canera_ p-pund resctutfen ehetk igrsphe from \an quelity photopcashy fork Toc landie# mult _nét1ona] maroing land for detailed land and resource surveys.

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