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Re:A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in Decembe... by daniel-cussen on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:30PM (#19423706)
Yep, they sent satellites to the moon in 1968 ahead of the Apollo mission. They had to noise the images they took so the world wouldn't know precisely their level of capability, but the photos taken of the entire moon had super high, crisp resolution.
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Re:A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in Decembe... by coldtea on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:13PM (#19426301)
>but the photos taken of the entire moon had super high, crisp resolution.

At the time, wouldn't they be film based images? If so, well, obviously the resolution would be high and crisp, especially if it was medium/large format.

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Re:A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in Decembe... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:49PM (#19426552)
These images were developed, digitized, compressed, and transmitted back to NASA from the Lunar orbiters. This article has the story of how they were recovered recently.

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/16/ampex-fr-900-drives.html

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