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Apollo 12: Self-Portrait

Title	Apollo 12: Self-Portrait
Explanation	Is it art? In November of 1969, Apollo 12 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990408.html ] astronaut-photographer Charles "Pete" Conrad [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990715.html ] recorded this masterpiece [ http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/AS12/10075421.htm ] while documenting colleague Alan Bean's lunar soil collection activities on the Oceanus Procellarum [ http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/planet_volcano/ lunar/mare/mlm.html ]. The image is dramatic and stark [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960420.html ]. Bean is faceless. The harsh environment of the Moon's Ocean of Storms is echoed in his helmet's perfectly composed reflection of Conrad and the lunar horizon [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/ ]. Works of photojournalists originally intent on recording the human condition on planet Earth, such as Lewis W. Hine's [ http://www.geh.org/fm/lwhprints/htmlsrc2/ index.html ] images from New York City in the early 20th century, or Margaret Bourke-White's [ http://lkwdpl.org/wihohio/bour-mar.htm ] magazine photography are widely regarded as art. Similarly many documentary astronomy and space images [ http://www.nasa.gov/cool.html ] can be appreciated for their artistic and esthetic appeal.

Apollo / Surveyor Stereo Vie …

Title	Apollo / Surveyor Stereo View
Explanation	Put on your red/blue glasses and gaze into this dramatic stereo view from the surface of the Moon [ http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html ]! Inspired by last Saturday's APOD [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010303.html ], experimentor Patrick Vantuyne offers this stereo rendering of Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad visiting the Surveyor 3 spacecraft in November of 1969. To create the stereo [ http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/ apod_search?stereo ] image, Vantuyne carefully combed through the pictures available for downloading from the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html ] web site to find two which would make an appropriate "stereo pair". He found [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/ images12.html#HiRes ] a pair that depicted the captivating scene from only slightly different viewpoints, approximating the separation between human eyes. Combining the two separate pictures, one tinted red and the other blue-green, with the correct offset, produces the stereo effect [ http://www.primenet.com/~deborah/ Stereo3D/ ] when viewed using red/blue glasses, the red filter covering the left eye. The color filters [ http://axon.physik.uni-bremen.de/research/stereo/ color_anaglyph/ ] guide each eye to see only the picture with the correct corresponding viewpoint and the brain interprets the result as normal stereo vision [ http://www.illusionworks.com/ ]. ("Editor's note:" While you've got those glasses [ http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/mpf/glasses.html ] on ... other web sources of astronomy and space science stereo images include the Mars Path Finder [ http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/ sitemap/anaglyph.html ] archive and a 3D Tour of the Solar System [ http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/stereo_atlas/SS3D.HTM ].)

Apollo 12: Stereo View Near Surveyor Crater

Apollo 12: Stereo View Near …

Title	Apollo 12: Stereo View Near Surveyor Crater
Explanation	This weekend's stereo picture [ http://www.nasm.edu/apollo30th/moontheater/p01.html ] finds Apollo 12 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/ apollo12info.html ] astronaut Pete Conrad standing on the lunar surface [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ ] near the southern rim of Surveyor Crater in November of 1969. With red/blue glasses you can gaze beyond [ http://users.pandora.be/patrick.vantuyne1/ ] the spacesuited Conrad across the magnificent desolation [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001209.html ] of the Moon's Ocean of Storms [ http://www.lpi.usra.edu/pub/research/stereo_atlas/ HTDOCS/A2LS-BL2.HTM ]. Conrad stands next to large chunks of loose rock, debris from the small impact crater. A sampling scoop is in his right hand and a specially designed tool carrier rests by his left foot as he poses for the picture. His photographer, fellow astronaut Al Bean, captured two separate images (cataloged as AS12-49-7318 and AS12-49-7319) by doing something like a stereo "cha-cha" [ http://www.rmm3d.com/3d.encyclopedia/ single.cam.html ] ... taking the first picture while resting his weight on his right foot and the second after shifting to his left. With the first tinted blue and second red, the pair of pictures were offset and combined to create a 3D anaglyph [ http://dogfeathers.com/3d/index.html ]. Donning red/blue glasses [ http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/mpf/ glasses.html ] allows the result to be viewed with stereo vision [ http://www.udel.edu/Biology/Wags/wagart/anaglyphpage/ anaglyph.html ].

Apollo 12: Stereo View Near …

Title	Apollo 12: Stereo View Near Surveyor Crater
Explanation	This weekend's stereo picture [ http://www.nasm.edu/apollo30th/moontheater/p01.html ] finds Apollo 12 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/ apollo12info.html ] astronaut Pete Conrad standing on the lunar surface [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ ] near the southern rim of Surveyor Crater in November of 1969. With red/blue glasses you can gaze beyond [ http://users.pandora.be/patrick.vantuyne1/doc2.htm ] the spacesuited Conrad across the magnificent desolation [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001209.html ] of the Moon's Ocean of Storms [ http://www.lpi.usra.edu/pub/research/stereo_atlas/ HTDOCS/A2LS-BL2.HTM ]. Conrad stands next to large chunks of loose rock, debris from the small impact crater. A sampling scoop is in his right hand and a specially designed tool carrier rests by his left foot as he poses for the picture. His photographer, fellow astronaut Al Bean, captured two separate images (cataloged as AS12-49-7318 and AS12-49-7319) by doing something like a stereo "cha-cha" [ http://www.rmm3d.com/3d.encyclopedia/ single.cam.html ] ... taking the first picture while resting his weight on his right foot and the second after shifting to his left. With the first tinted blue and second red, the pair of pictures were offset and combined to create a 3D anaglyph [ http://dogfeathers.com/3d/index.html ]. Donning red/blue glasses [ http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/mpf/ glasses.html ] allows the result to be viewed with stereo vision [ http://www.udel.edu/Biology/Wags/wagart/anaglyphpage/ anaglyph.html ].

Apollo Sunrise

Title	Apollo Sunrise
Explanation	In November of 1969, homeward bound aboard the "Yankee Clipper" command module, the Apollo 12 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951008.html ] astronauts took this dramatic photograph of the Sun emerging from behind the Earth. From this distant perspective, part of the solar disk peers over the Earth's limb [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951117.html ], its direct light producing the jewel like glint while sunlight scattered by the atmosphere creates the thin bright crescent. Today at 10:24 pm Eastern Daylight [ http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/RGO/leaflets/summer/summer.html ] Time [ http://www.phys.washington.edu/Department/tour/sundial/ ] is the Summer Solstice [ http://www.lalc.k12.ca.us/laep/smart/Sunrise/k3les1.html ]. From an earthbound perspective [ http://dlt.gsfc.nasa.gov/Ask/lessons/regions/temperate/seasons.html ], the solar disk will climb to its greatest northern declination [ http://www.csbsju.edu/astro/CS/CS.11.html ] marking the Northern Hemisphere's first day of Summer [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951222.html ] and creating the longest day -- with over 15 hours of daylight [ http://nobody.vn.fi/vn/um/kesa3eng.html ] near latitude +40 degrees.

Apollo 12: Self-Portrait

Title	Apollo 12: Self-Portrait
Explanation	Is it art? In November of 1969, Apollo 12 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990408.html ] astronaut-photographer Charles "Pete" Conrad [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990715.html ] recorded this masterpiece [ http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/AS12/10075421.htm ] while documenting colleague Alan Bean's [ http://www.alanbeangallery.com/ ] lunar soil collection activities on the Oceanus Procellarum [ http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/planet_volcano/ lunar/mare/mlm.html ]. The image is dramatic and stark [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960420.html ]. Bean is faceless. The harsh environment of the Moon's Ocean of Storms is echoed in his helmet's perfectly composed reflection of Conrad and the lunar horizon [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/ ]. Works of photojournalists originally intent on recording the human condition on planet Earth, such as Lewis W. Hine's [ http://www.geh.org/fm/lwhprints/htmlsrc2/ index.html ] images from New York City in the early 20th century, or Margaret Bourke-White's [ http://lkwdpl.org/wihohio/bour-mar.htm ] magazine photography are widely regarded as art. Similarly many documentary astronomy and space images [ http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov ] can be appreciated for their artistic and esthetic appeal [ http://heritage.stsci.edu/ ].

An Apollo 12 Panorama

Title	An Apollo 12 Panorama
Explanation	The Apollo 12 mission [ http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/AS12/a12.htm ] was the second [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980503.html ] ever to land humans on the Moon. The mission was dedicated [ http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/AS12/a12mo.htm ] to studying the Moon [ http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html ], developing techniques, and developing instruments that could be used in future lunar landings [ http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/apollo.htm ]. Astronauts Charles (Pete) Conrad and Alan Bean [ http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo12/A12_Overview_crew.html ] spent just under two days on the lunar surface in November 1969, while Richard Gordon [ http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/gordon-rf.html ] orbited above in the Command Module [ http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/apollo/ ]. Pictured above [ http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/LunarAtlas/panoramas/ ] in this digitally stitched panorama, Alan Bean works near the Lunar Module [ http://www.nasm.edu/galleries/attm/nojs/a11.am.lm.1.html ]. Scrolling to the right will reveal a dark color panorama [ http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/LunarAtlas/panoramas/ ] where flat lunar terrain and a tall video camera are visible. Apollo 12 mission [ http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/AS12/a12.htm ] astronauts visited the site [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020713.html ] of the nearby Surveyor 3 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031005.html ] robot spacecraft that had landed on the moon three years earlier.

Apollo 12: Surveyor 3 and In …

Title	Apollo 12: Surveyor 3 and Intrepid
Explanation	On April 20, 1967, NASA's robot spacecraft Surveyor 3 landed [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/surveyor.html ] on the moon, touching down on the inside slope of a small lunar crater in the Ocean of Storms. Over 2 1/2 years later, on November 19, 1969, the lunar module Intrepid, piloted by Apollo 12 [ http://www.nasm.edu/APOLLO/AS12/ ] astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean, flew overhead and landed nearby [ http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/pub/expmoon/Apollo12/A12_lsite.html ] in the second visit by humans to the lunar surface [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4214/cover.html ]. Intrepid touched down about 600 feet away and the moon walking astronauts [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12j.html ] were easily able to reach the Surveyor [ http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/pub/expmoon/surveyor/Surveyor3.html ] and examine the remote explorer that had preceded them. Intrepid is seen in the background of this striking high resolution [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/images12.html#HiRes ] picture of Surveyor 3. Surveyor's leftmost foot pad appears dug in while its foreground foot pad has made two distinct imprints in the powdery lunar soil [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980327.html ] - clear indications that the Surveyor slid and bounced on landing. Using bolt cutters, the astronauts [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap961124.html ] removed Surveyor's TV camera (the cylinder shape at the right of the tall solar panel mast) and its sampling scoop (on the arm extended to the right), returning them to Earth for study.

Charles P. Conrad, Jr. 1930- …

Title	Charles P. Conrad, Jr. 1930-1999
Explanation	Known for his sense of humor and infectious grin, Charles P. "Pete" Conrad [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo12/conrad/index.html ], as commander of the Apollo 12 mission [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990408.html ], was the third person to walk on the moon. Not a tall man, Conrad stepped down onto the lunar surface in November of 1969 and gleefully commented [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12.eva1prelim.html ], "Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me." Born June 2nd, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Princeton University in 1953 and went on to become a Navy test pilot. Selected as a NASA astronaut in 1962, Conrad is seen here in 1965 [ http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/GT5/10074055.htm ] during a suiting up activity in preparation for his first space flight - the endurance record setting Gemini 5 mission [ http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/gemini/gemini-v/gemini-v.html ]. His final space flight was to Skylab [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980510.html ] in 1973. Tragically [ ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-080.txt ], Conrad died from injuries in a motorcycle accident on Thursday, July 8 [ ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-079.txt ].

Apollo 12: Self-Portrait

Title	Apollo 12: Self-Portrait
Explanation	In November of 1969, Apollo 12 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990408.html ] astronaut-photographer Charles "Pete" Conrad [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990715.html ] recorded this masterpiece while documenting colleague Alan Bean's [ http://www.alanbeangallery.com/ ] lunar soil collection activities on the Oceanus Procellarum [ http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/planet_volcano/ lunar/mare/mlm.html ]. The image is dramatic and stark [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031109.html ]. The harsh environment of the Moon's Ocean of Storms is echoed in Bean's helmet, a perfectly composed reflection [ http://mirrorproject.com/galleries/gantz/ ] of Conrad and the lunar horizon [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/ ]. Is it art? Works of photojournalists originally intent on recording the human condition on planet Earth, such as Lewis W. Hine's [ http://www.geh.org/fm/lwhprints/htmlsrc2/ index.html ] images from New York City in the early 20th century, or Margaret Bourke-White's [ http://lkwdpl.org/wihohio/bour-mar.htm ] magazine photography are widely regarded as art. Similarly many documentary astronomy and space images [ http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov ] can be appreciated for their artistic and esthetic appeal [ http://heritage.stsci.edu/ ].

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