ISRO has a fantastic 3D video of moon posted in its website. The 2.30 minutes video was taken by the Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC). It was taken as Chandrayaan-1 flew past the area near the South polar region of the moon.
The video is taken from a height of 100 km from moon’s surface. It has a spatial resolution of 5 metres. Terrain Mapping Camera combines the data of a point taken from three different views to get a high-resolution 3D image. The first of its kind video of the moon in the world.
It is best seen at normal zoom and not in full-screen zoom.
UPDATE: The video is NOT a 3D version but a video from a single view. The Terrain Mapping Camera can image a surface feature from three different views. Combing these 3 views will help produce a superior 3D atlas of the moon.
My latest top posts are:
1) Pictures taken by the Moon Impact Probe
2) Pictures taken by the Terrain Mapping Camera from the 100-km orbit
Tags: 3-D image, 3D, 3D image, Chandrayaan-1, ISRO, moon, south polar region, Terrain mapping camera, TMC, video
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