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Clair de Lune (Moonlight)
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 4:41 pm
by Ron Schmit
Most of you will instantly recognize the song Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy. It shows up in lots of movies and somnolent videos: quiet, contemplative, and slightly melancholy, evoking the feeling of a solitary walk through a moonlit garden. Appropriate since the name translates to "moonlight" in French.
Using data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), NASA Goddard put together this lovely stroll of the terminator across the lunar surface. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNpsy6lBPBw
Re: Clair de Lune (Moonlight)
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 7:46 pm
by Dick Jacobson
Wonderful! The music is perfect for the video. Thanks for posting.
Re: Clair de Lune (Moonlight)
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 8:56 pm
by markjob
FABULOUS!
Re: Clair de Lune (Moonlight)
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 8:59 pm
by Sureshks
Hi Ron,
This is really amazing. I'm going to steal it... thanks!
Suresh
Re: Clair de Lune (Moonlight)
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 9:39 am
by setnes
It hurts my brain when I watch this and know that it's an animation based on a 3D model, and not real images.
Re: Clair de Lune (Moonlight)
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:34 pm
by Deane Clark
I can’t tell the difference. It’s just beautiful! And no swimming pool seeing getting in the way
Re: Clair de Lune (Moonlight)
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:02 am
by Dick Jacobson
setnes wrote:
> It hurts my brain when I watch this and know that it's an animation based
> on a 3D model, and not real images.
Thanks for the explanation, Kris! Yesterday my wife Helen and I were discussing how an orbiting spacecraft could possibly make such a smooth sequence of terminator images. I didn't think it was possible to put together such a smooth video based on one orbital flyover every two hours. Turns out, it looks like I was right. I think it could be done "honestly" by a spacecraft parked at the Earth-Moon Lagrange point.
However it was done, the results are fabulous!
Re: Clair de Lune (Moonlight)
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 10:55 am
by Ron Schmit
Using the same LRO data set, they were able to recreate what the Apollo 13 astronauts saw out the window as they passed the Moon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilifg26TZrI
Re: Clair de Lune (Moonlight)
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:01 pm
by Ron Schmit
For those of you who attended Dave Falkner's EXCELLENT BSIG presentation on The Moon today, here is the video I mentioned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNpsy6lBPBw
Using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), they assemble a 3D model of the Moon and provide us an entirely different perspective on the Moon; one we could only enjoy onboard a ship of the imagination.
Re: Clair de Lune (Moonlight)
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:34 am
by Dick Jacobson
How long will it be before the Moon is defaced forever by bulldozers? The current enthusiasm for lunar exploitation worries me. The Moon is a beautiful record of billions of years of Solar System history. It is utterly unlike the Earth, whose surface is constantly churned up by violent geology, weather, biology, and mankind. Exploration, yes. Exploitation, please, never!