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New color images of the Moon!

On January 25, 1994, the Deep Space Program Science Experiment (DSPSE) (better known as Clementine) was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on a mission designed to test lightweight miniature sensors and advanced spacecraft components by exposing them, over a long period of time, to the difficult environment of outer space. In addition to testing the various sensors, Clementine was given the complex task of mapping the moon. The mission results were spectacular.

By implementing the "faster, cheaper, better" management approach, Clementine was able to move from conceptual design to launch in only 22 months and at a cost of 80 million dollars (including the launch and mapping operations). This was the first time this particular approach was used in a space program. The costs of previous deep space missions had been significantly higher and took a great deal more time to develop.

Between February 26 and April 22, 1994, Clementine was able to deliver more than 1.8 million digital images of the moon back to the Clementine ground network, including the NRL satellite ground-tracking station located in Maryland. These images were quickly accessible to the general public via the Internet and World Wide Web. When scientists reviewed the data from Clementine, they made a major scientific discovery: the possible existence of ice within some of the moon's craters. This discovery was confirmed in early 1998 by NASA's Lunar Prospector.

The Pentagon announced on December 3, 1996, that radar data acquired by the Clementine spacecraft indicated ice in the bottom of a crater on the South Pole of the Moon. Although it is never lit by the Sun, there are a few images of the South Pole available for viewing.

The BMDO assigned responsibility for the Clementine spacecraft design, manufacture, integration, and mission execution to the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) provided lightweight imaging sensors developed under the sponsorship of BMDO. Clementine launched on a Titan IIG expendable launch vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in January 1994. During its two month orbit of the Moon it captured 1.8 million images of the Moons surface.

In 1994, President Clinton cited Clementine as one of the major national achievements in aeronautics in space. He stated "The relatively inexpensive, rapidly built spacecraft constituted a major revolution in spacecraft management and design; it also contributed significantly to lunar studies by photographing 1.8 million images of the surface of the Moon." The President was not alone in his praise of Clementine. In addition to the President's comments, Clementine and the people associated with the program were presented with the following awards:

• Popular Science magazine: Best of 1994's Top 100 Technologies
• Aviation Week and Space Technology: 1994 Laureate Award
• National Space Club: Nelson P. Jackson Award
• Rotary National Award for Space Achievement
• Navy Award for Group Achievement
• Discover magazine: 1994 Award for Outstanding Technological Innovation
• 1996 Induction into the Space Hall of Fame

Clementine was jointly sponsored by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and NASA. The BMDO assigned responsibility for the Clementine spacecraft design, manufacture, integration, and mission execution to the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) provided lightweight imaging sensors developed under the sponsorship of BMDO.

In 2003, NRL donated the engineering model of the Clementine satellite for display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

Clementine was jointly sponsored by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and NASA. The BMDO assigned responsibility for the Clementine spacecraft design, manufacture, integration, and mission execution to the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) provided lightweight imaging sensors developed under the sponsorship of BMDO.

In 2003, NRL donated the engineering model of the Clementine satellite for display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

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My .02 - Now with all that NASA accomplished with the Clementine mission, why would they try to hide the actual truth about what they really discovered? Its no longer a secret that the Moon is not as we were led to believe. The color and brilliance of the lunar surface has been kept secret from all of us until recently. Most of the thanks for these new images and discoveries go to Jose Escamilla and his film Moon Rising which showed us for the first time what the Moon surface looks like and how it appears to our brave and heroic space warriors. I know this sounds crazy to some of you, but its true. Google Hubble NASA Moon Photography and find me just one Hubble Moon photo that is in COLOR! you never will because they dont exist, or they are kept secret. NASA doesnt want you to know youve been lied to. The below photo shows you that the Moon is not gray and colorless as we have been led to believe, but in fact it has earth tones and other dynamic colors that shine with obvious brilliance!

So this brings me to the structures that have been discovered on the lunar surface. Now if NASA has been bullshitting us about the simple basics, what makes you think they would share information about the structures and obviously foreign objects on the Moon? Well you guessed it, they have not. BUT, there are former NASA Executives prepared to testify before Congress to truth of these images and the truth about the NASA cover up. You can easily YouTube everything I am mentioning and figure it out for yourself. Im not trying to bash NASA, I love the space program and all our heroes in space, but I want to know what they know!

NASA leaves behind their antiquated editing from the past as evidence of their naughtiness. I submit the following two photos as proof of this. These are photos taken by NASA via the Clementine Satillite. The photos were blurred by NASA prior to release. At the time, I am sure NASA thought they were pretty savvy, but equally savvy people will not be denied the truth! Look at these AUTHENTIC photos and judge for yourself. Why would NASA smudge these images?

Please enjoy the real Moon photo as well, isnt it amazing!

• Spacecraft Information
• Science Payload Information
• Trajectory Information

Processed Imagery

• Albedo Map of the Moon. About 50,000 Clementine images have been processed and mosaicked to produce a global map of the Moon's albedo - normalized brightness or reflectivity. (7/13/99)
• 42 Selected Images of the Moon and the Earth (posted 5/18/94)
• A Clementine Collection, the catalog accompanying the exhibit of Clementine imagery that opened at the National Academy of Sciences is available on-line. All the images of the moon and earth are available at viewing resolutions as well as full publication quality resolutions.
• Animation created from Clementine data.

Clementine Data Set

• The Clementine Lunar Map 2.0 (Beta) is available. The Clementine Lunar Image Browser has been transformed and renamed with the release of this browser based map.
• The Clementine Lunar Image Browser (CLIB) is available. Version 1.5 allows access to over 170,000 Clementine images and includes a new interface that allows the user to zoom in to any location on the moon.
  • CLIB Information
  • CLIB Frequently Asked Questions
  • CLIB Help
• The Lunar Feature Extension allows the user to make any of the over one thousand named lunar features the starting image in the Clementine Lunar Image Browser.
  • Lunar Feature Extension Information

Links

• Clementine pages at LLNL
• Clementine Pages at USGS