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Old 20-August-2006, 01:52 AM
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Wink Film? and Follow up Question

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Originally Posted by phunk View Post
How could it be shared in real time back then? There was no internet, and it was film, not digital, it had to be processed.
Actually, the film was processed and scanned to digital form on the orbitor and then sent back to earth via radio transmitions. It's this "RAW" digital information that should have and should be shared with the public and not the end picture(s).

Also, nobody has answered my basic question of "Why hasn't NASA or another space agency ever sent another orbitor to take high resolution pictures of the moon's surface since 1967?"