Enhanced LRO Camera Views of the Apollo Landing Sites

I spent a considerable amount of time processing and enhancing the LROC images of the Apollo landing sites. It is fascinating to see what is revealed in my enhanced images. Have fun and see what interesting details you can pick out!

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Copyright Information: All LROC photos are copyright NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University.

LRO's Latest Apollo 11 Photograph Photographed on August 8, 2009 Original LRO Image   Dejittered, deconvolved, local adaptive filter applied.         Dejittered, deconvolved, local adaptive filter applied, labeled.   2x close-up view of left photograph. some vertical jitter is still present in this image.

Apollo 11 Phtographed on July 12, 2009 Original LRO Image   Dejittered, deconvolved, local adaptive filter applied, adjusted curves.

Apollo 12 Photographed on August 11, 2009 Original LRO Image   Dejittered and deconvolved.           Enhanced with a local adaptive filter and curves adjusted to show astronaut tracks.

Apollo 14 Photographed on July 15, 2009 Original LRO Image   Dejittered, deconvolved, local adaptive filter applied.           Enhanced with a local adaptive filter and curves adjusted to show astronaut tracks.

Apollo 15 Photographed on July 13, 2009 Original LRO Image   Dejittered and deconvolved.           Enhanced with a local adaptive filter and curves adjusted to show astronaut tracks.

Apollo 16 Photographed on July 12, 2009 Original LRO Image   Dejittered and deconvolved.           Enhanced with a high pass filter, local adaptive filter and curves adjusted. No tracks are visible.

LRO's Latest Apollo 17 Photograph Photographed on October 01, 2009 Original LRO Image   1. Levels adjusted.         2. Adjust curves to enhance the terrain.   3. Deconvolved.         4. Perform Fourier analysis and edit transforms to remove jitter and banding artifacts.   5. Copy image, apply high pass filter to copied image, then overlay it atop of the image from step 4.         Photo AS17-134-20505 which has been color balanced.   Photo AS17-134-20505, color balanced and then curves applied to enhance contrast of the terrain.       — Photo from step 5, above, with an overlay showing the camera position of EVA photo 20505 (vertex of orange lines), the horizontal field of view of the 60mm Biogon lens (orange lines), and the direction which the Hasselblad camera was aimed towards when photo 20505 was taken. — Comparison of the details shown in the LRO and 20505 photographs.

Apollo 17 Photographed on July 11, 2009 Original LRO Image   Dejittered, deconvolved, local adaptive filter applied.           Enhanced with a local adaptive filter and curves adjusted to show astronaut tracks.