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Does anyone know how we got such high quality (live?) video of astronauts walking on the moon, but recent moon missions like LCROSS [1] didn't even have video AFAIK?

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_r...



Most missions don't value natural light photography over other spectrum specializations and a video of the moon without anyone jumping on it would be pretty boring.


According to Wikipedia, LCROSS had one visible light camera, as well has four infra-red cameras. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCROSS#Instruments. Presumably they were still cameras.

It was looking for water on the moon, so my guess would be that video just wasn't important.




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