Earth meets Saturn.
Don’t know why I’ve never seen this before, but all I have to say about this is Ed “Buzz” Aldrin is the man. This kid is a douche.
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Without getting into all of the technical jargon and numbers, this is simply put, the largest and most detailed image of the moon taken from Earth ever created. So awesome is this photo that you can actually virtually cruise all over the surface and if there were people living there, you would be able to see them having a BBQ in their backyards.
The aim was to image the Moon at very high focal lengths using high frame-rate planetary cameras attached to numerous large amateur telescopes. Each telescope would take an image of a small section of the lunar surface at high resolution and these would be assembled, like a giant jigsaw puzzle, into a complete image of the 9-day old Moon. The mission was successful; so successful in fact that the image made the annals of Guinness’ Book of World Records. Hop over at take a peek.
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