LOIRP releases an enhanced "Image of the Century"
In 1966, Lunar Orbiter 2 took an oblique image of Copernicus crater and made one of the truly
amazing images of the 20th Century and beyond.
The folks at LOIRP have worked on this incredible photo set and enhanced it, showing even
more details. See here:
http://www.moonviews.com/archives/2009/08/loirp_releases_enhanced_restor.html
Compare this and other images from the five Lunar Orbiters with what was taken just a year
earlier by Mariner 4 of Mars:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/mission_page/MR_Mariner_4_page1.html
Historic, yes. High quality, no. The reason we didn't send humans there in the 1980s or have
manned bases on Mars by now: Probably.