The photograph has been dedicated to NASA ‘s Artemis 1 mission that will fly to the Moon this week. It has a resolution of 174MP.
Two photographers have captured the most detailed image of the Moon to date with a resolution of 174 megapixels.
The image was taken by astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy and Connor Matherne and is made up of thousands of photographs by both artists and took a year to complete.
View this post on Instagram
“The hunt for Artemis”
The photo has been called “The Hunt for Artemis” and is a tribute to NASA ‘s Artemis 1 mission which will launch this Monday .
“This is the highest resolution photo of the Moon I’ve ever taken,” Matherne noted on Instagram. “I captured the color data while McCarthy captured the details. Combined, we ended up with an incredibly detailed photo of our lunar neighbor in stunning color.”
The image is a combination of more than 200,000 McCarthy images (taken from Arizona) and 50,000 Matherne images (taken from Louisiana).
“The color in this image is true to life, but it is rendered with higher saturation to make it easily visible to our eyes,” McCarthy wrote on Reddit. “The reddish hues show areas rich in iron and feldspar, while the bluish areas are places where the regolith is rich in titanium. Oxidation in the Earth’s atmosphere makes the colors look the way they do.”
“The hunt for Artemis”
The photo has been called “The Hunt for Artemis” and is a tribute to NASA ‘s Artemis 1 mission which will launch this Monday .
“This is the highest resolution photo of the Moon I’ve ever taken,” Matherne noted on Instagram.“I captured the color data while McCarthy captured the details. Combined, we ended up with an incredibly detailed photo of our lunar neighbor in stunning color.”
The image is a combination of more than 200,000 McCarthy images (taken from Arizona) and 50,000 Matherne images (taken from Louisiana).
“The color in this image is true to life, but it is rendered with higher saturation to make it easily visible to our eyes,” McCarthy wrote on Reddit. “The reddish hues show areas rich in iron and feldspar, while the bluish areas are places where the regolith is rich in titanium. Oxidation in the Earth’s atmosphere makes the colors look the way they do.”