July 20 marked the anniversary of the first human foot on the moon. If you were alive back then, you probably remember being glued to television watching Armstrong’s high-tech footage taking that first step. But if you go back and watch the video today, it doesn’t look like you remember it. We’ve been spoiled for high-density video with incredible frame rates. [Dutchsteammachine] He has taken a large number of old NASA images and used his tools to update them at higher frame rates that look much better, as you can see below.
The original movie of the moon landing ran between 12 frames per second and as low as 1 frame per second. The new video is interpolated at 24 frames per second. Some of the latest Apollo mission movies have up to 60 frames per second. The results are great.
We can only hope that future missions carry enough gear so that we can all go through virtual reality. Honestly, when you think about the state of technology in 1969, it’s surprising that we have a video. Consider how computers had to struggle to make simple trigonometric functions. Some people think that the moon landings did not have many impacts here on Earth. But we think they would be wrong.
