The Apollo program was designed to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth. Apollo 15 was the ninth manned mission of a series and the fourth to land men on the moon. The mission was the first flight of the Lunar Roving Vehicle, which enabled astronauts to explore the geology of the lunar regions. Orbital science experiments and science photography were performed on the Apollo missions during lunar orbit. Several types of cameras were used during the missions to perform the photography experiments. During Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions, panoramic cameras were used to capture high-resolution imagery in monoscopic and stereoscopic modes to study the lunar surface. This page offers a corrected stereoscopic pair in Anaglyph 3D mode captured during Apollo mission 15. The imagery features craters: Krieger, Rocco and Ruth. You can navigate the online image by using the zoom and pan controls at the bottom center of the online image viewer and use the inset red box at the upper left corner as a reference. Red/Cyan stereo glasses are required to view it properly. For related entries, please see below: #3529: Apollo 15 Rectified Stereo Stills: KRIEGER #3531: Apollo 15 Rectified Stereo Panorama - Left and Right Eye imagery
Anaglyphic 3D panorama from Apollo 15
Features: craters Krieger, Rocco and Ruth
August 4, 1971 The lunar stereo still imagery provided in this page used as source material archived panoramic recitifed film photographs. Nearly all the panoramic photographs from the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions have been rectified and are archived in the NASA/GSFC campus. The rectification process corrected the camera and viewing distortions, as it results in a vertical projection of the lunar surface.The rectified photographs are more accurate for stereoscopic use than the original panoramic photographs, but still the pairs do not converge for the left and right eye. Image AS15-P-10325 was digitally corrected based on AS15-P-10320 to allow stereo convergence. Detailed information of the rectified imagery is provided below:
Image Collection: Panoramic Mission: 15 Magazine: P Camera: 610-mm (24-in.) ITEK panoramic camera Revolution: 72 Latitude/Longitude: 29° N/ 45°W Lens Focal Length: 24 inch Stereo Pairs:AS15-P-10320 (Forward Camera Look), AS15-P-10325 (After Camera Look) Camera Altitude: 109 km Sun Elevation: 20° Film type: 3414 Film Width: 5 inch Image Width: 45.24 inch Image Height: 4.5 inch Film Color: black and white Features: Craters Krieger, Rocco, Ruth
Please give credit for this item to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Apollo 15 rectified panoramic stereo film imagery is courtesy of Jay Friedlander (NASA/GSFC)
