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Originally Posted by softearth
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).
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Is raw data unavalible or simply only provided if specificly asked for (and not nessicarily for free)? The general public lacks the capability to make use of unprocessed data so making it avalible to them is fairly pointless, and given the large quantaties of data supplying it will have a significant cost.
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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?"
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Most likely because they all have decidedly limited budgets and as high resolution images are already avalible from Apollo obtaining new ones aren't high on the list of things to spend money on.