Over the preceding four old age the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ( LRO ) was busy collect photographs … 10,581 to be precise . And it was all for you ! So you could explore the moon at a daze resolution of six feet per pixel — your tax dollars at work
The entire explorable area bewitch by the LRO spans 25 % of the Continental United States . NASA ’s scientists are even bid the feat “ one of the world ’s largest images … at least publicly available on the web . ”
It ’s believable , deliberate its uncompressed size is 3.3 terabyte , and if you were to publish the entire range at 330 dpi resolution , it ’d fill an entire football field . So take a duet moments to fly around the lunation ’s crater , the LRO ’s been at it for four age .
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