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HeadLikeARock	Jun 30 2009, 02:03 PM
Posts: 345 Group: Members Member #438 Joined: 03/25/08	Lin Kuei Jun 30 2009, 06:31 AM Domenick DiMaggio Jun 30 2009, 05:56 AM However, recently scientists looking for other data stumbled across a number of Nasa tapes in a storage facility in Perth, Australia. Wowsers! How did they find their way to the most isolated state-capital city on the planet? That shit doesn't make any sense. NASA used 3 dishes to retrieve the TV signal from the moon on Apollo 11, one at Goldstone (California), Honeysuckle Creek and Parkes (both in Australia). For first 9 minutes they switched between the three, trying to get the best picture. Then they stuck with Parkes for the rest of the transmission since the quality was far better. Unfortunately, only Australians got to see the high quality transmission direct from Parkes. The signal was passed to Houston via satellite, and the process of getting the feed into a broadcastable standard reduced the quality noticeably (including a TV camera pointed at a kinescope screen). The version of the TV broadcast that everyone sees now is the one that was recorded at Houston after all the electronic jiggery-pokery had degraded the signal. Fortunatley, the original slow-scan image was also recorded at Parkes. It's this recording that researchers have been trying to get hold of, so it makes sense that it would be stored in Australia somewhere. Incidentally, I'm not sure the Express article has all the facts right on this scoop. I'm going to wait and see how things pan out, it wouldn't surprise me if NASA wait until closer to July 20th to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of the moon landings before releasing the newly discovered footage.
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