Clementine question

[na...@cas.org]

Does anyone know aproximately how many pictures were taken by Clementine?
and how many are publicly available from the ftp site?

Thanks,

Neil Reams

[Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey]

In article <1994May16....@chemabs.uucp>, na...@cas.org () writes:
> Does anyone know aproximately how many pictures were taken by Clementine?
> and how many are publicly available from the ftp site?

About 1.5 million images were made, enough for an essentially complete
map of the Moon in many wavelength bands. Also a laser altimeter
measured lunar topography across the globe (I don't know how much data
this represents), and various other scientific studies were done.

I have not counted the number of pictures on the FTP site at
clementine.s1.gov. There are many dozens of nice PR pictures, and
raw-data images from three different orbits are also available. I
would guess over 300 images are involved, but I could be way off.

The Clementine project plans eventually to make all the data available
on CD-ROM-- probably pretty inexpensively, if other projects are
similar. I'm sure it will take some years to integrate all the
pictures and laser data into a nice new Moon map. In fact, I'm not
sure that anybody is funded to do this.

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