In this image from 2014, an adult osprey, carrying a fish in its talons, prepares to land in its nest atop a speaker platform in the press site parking lot at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the background is the 209-foot-tall U.S. flag painted on the side of the 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building, which serves as the central hub of NASA’s premier multi-user spaceport, capable of hosting several different kinds of rockets and spacecraft at the same time. The parking lot borders the water of the Launch Complex 39 turn basin, making it an ideal source of food for the osprey. The undeveloped property on Kennedy Space Center is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge provides a habitat for a plethora of wildlife, including 330 species of birds. For information on the refuge, visit http://www.fws.gov/merrittisland/Index.html.

Image Credit: NASA/Daniel Casper

Last Updated: Jul 1, 2022Editor: Yvette SmithTags:  Image of the Day, NASA History

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NASA photos reproduced from this archive should include photo credit to "NASA" or "National Aeronautics and Space Administration" and should include scanning credit to the appropriate individuals or agencies as noted in the captions.

Many of the scans of photos taken during the missions were done from the original film. These scans are being done by NASA Johnson, with some post-processing by Kipp Teague. The film is scanned at 4096 x 4096 pixels per image. (See a discussion from Arizona State University about the scanning process.) Kipp reduced each digital image to approximately 2350 x 2350 pixels (equivalent to 300 dpi) and did minor adjustments of levels to ensure that (1) brightly lit areas of lunar soil were neutral grey, (2) objects with known colors (such as the CDR stripes or the LCRU blankets) looked right, and (3) information in bright or dark areas was not lost. These images from original film are indicated by the notation 'OF300' in the image description. In each case, a 900 x 900 pixel version is also provided.

Anaglyphs in the image libraries created from sequential panorama frames by the ALSJ editor exist only because of Yuri Krasilnikov's willingness to teach me the art. Whatever value the anaglyphs have is due to Yuri's insights and guidance. Flaws are my doing. Briefly, panorama stitching freeware Hugin is used to create both non-stereo pan assemblies and remapped versions of the images. The latter are then made into anaglyphs using GIMP. The individual remapped images are linked from the corresponding Library entries for the original frames. The remapped images can be used to create stereo views using other methods.

For those interested in the subject of Apollo Photography and the Color of the Moon, see a brief discussion written for the ALSJ by Michael Light.

This Apollo 11 Image Library contains all of the pictures taken on the lunar surface by the astronauts together with pictures from pre-flight training and pictures of equipment and the flight hardware. High-resolution version of all the lunar surface images are included. A source for both thumbnail and low -resolution versions of the lunar surface images is a website compiled by Paul Spudis and colleagues at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

Descriptions of the cameras, film and general contents of the various magazines used during Apollo 11 can be found in National Space Science Data Center Report NSSDC 70-06, Apollo 11 Lunar Photography, issued April 1970.

Journal Contributor Paul White has made detailed comparisons of cloud patterns seen in a large number of Apollo images with imagery taken at close to the same time by various meteorlogical satellites.

Sections:

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera ImagesLanding Site Maps/ImagesAssembled PanoramasPre-Flight Suit ImagesCrew and Equipment Pre-FlightVehicle Assembly, Transport, and Checkout on the Launch PadSaturn V LaunchMission Support PhotosMission Photos by Magazine NumberMagazine 36/N (Color) Translunar Coast and Lunar OrbitMagazine 37/R (Color) Lunar Orbit and Lunar Surface out LM WindowsMagazine 38/O (Color) Lunar FarsideMagazine 39/Q (B & W) Lunar Surface out LM WindowsMagazine 40/S (Color) Lunar SurfaceMagazine 41/P (B & W) Lunar OrbitMagazine 42/U (B & W) Lunar OrbitMagazine 43/T (B & W) Lunar OrbitMagazine 44/V (Color) Lunar OrbitMagazine 45/W (Color) Apollo Lunar Surface Close-up CameraRecovery and Post-Flight PhotosMission Report FiguresPreliminary Science Report Figures

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Images

Original LROC image courtesy NASA/GSFC/ASU. Deconvovled/enhanced versions courtesy NASA/GSFC/ASU/GoneToPlaid.