Photographs of the Moon, processed by a New Zealander

(I had accidentally posted this to another blog about open source software)

Maurice Collins, in Palmerston North, reprocessed images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera to produce some stunning photographs.

Unfortunately, he uses somewhat non-standard HTML, so I was unable too look at most of his pages at his website using Firefox.

http://www.universetoday.com/74082/the-moon-in-stunning-wide-angle/
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However, the raw wide-angle images are somewhat distorted by the camera, but Maurice Collins, a Moon enthusiast from New Zealand, found that putting several images together in a mosaic removes a lot of the distortions and produces a much clearer image. The results are nothing short of stunning; here are a few example of Maurice’s handiwork, including this jaw-dropping image of the Marius Hills region of the Moon. Click on any of these images for a larger version on Maurice’s website, Moon Science
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New Zealand's own Space Rocket

On Monday, November 30th, a New Zealand company Rocket Lab, launched a small rocket into space. It has a bigger rocket being developed. The company innovated a rather novel fuel and technology for the actual rocket engine, that is far more cost effective than that used by NASA!

The launch was in an article on the BBC news site.

I feel that this New Zealand company has a great future, and all New Zealanders should be proud of it.