Showing posts with label Moon Landing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moon Landing. Show all posts

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Nvidia, a Graphics Card Designer, Disproves a Couple Conspiracy Theories

We now have the technology (commercially) now to create the whole moon landing scenario. Nvidia, a powerful graphics card company that powers the video that we see on our screens, takes us through their process of trying to render and simulate the whole landing scenario and 'proves' that the weird lighting conditions on the moon was due to the reflections and albedo (remember that word from gr 10 science?) of the moon and objects surrounding their camera, including their space suits.

Check it out here if you have some time.  


Sunday, 21 September 2014

Trending on Reddit - Some Uncommon Images from the Apollo Program

Below are some amazing images from the Apollo Program 50+ years ago.  You may find the rest on imgur.  Take a look as it's just much more impressive full screen, but probably not as impressive live. Please, Elon Musk, work faster and make space travel available within my lifetime.

If you scroll the comments, you will find some people doubting the validity of the photos, as well as the actual mission itself.  These are always important questions.  I encourage you to delve further into the topic during your blog time if you're interested.

I've highlighted two comments below.  Can you answer them?

1)  Why are some of the pictures involving Earth upside down?
2)  Why is the resolution of the photos so high?