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07-09-2017, 09:56 PM
This AR lunar model takes you as close to the moon as you can get (without a spaceship)
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The moon may be 238,900*miles away from Earth, but with a new lunar model and accompanying AR app, it might as well be in the palm of your hand.
AstroReality (http://www.astroreality.com/), a Bay Area-based startup whose co-founder is an astro-photographer, is creating hand-painted, 3D-printed moon models to bring the moon's surface down to Earth.
SEE ALSO: 15 best items for those who are obsessed with outer space (http://mashable.com/2017/06/04/items-for-outer-space-people/)
The Lunar Pro is a softball-sized, one-pound orb that recreates the moon and all its craters, edges, and other topography based on NASA's lunar orbiter data (https://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/). It's made at a resolution of 4,000 DPI, which is incredibly precise. It's then molded with a poly resin material that is hand-painted to mimic what the moon looks like. It comes shockingly close. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/09/moon-lunar-model-ar-app/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Space (http://mashable.com/space/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Moon (http://mashable.com/category/moon/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Augmented Reality (http://mashable.com/category/augmented-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Science (http://mashable.com/science/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Vr Ar (http://mashable.com/category/vr-ar/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/rWgETXzCTKQ
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The moon may be 238,900*miles away from Earth, but with a new lunar model and accompanying AR app, it might as well be in the palm of your hand.
AstroReality (http://www.astroreality.com/), a Bay Area-based startup whose co-founder is an astro-photographer, is creating hand-painted, 3D-printed moon models to bring the moon's surface down to Earth.
SEE ALSO: 15 best items for those who are obsessed with outer space (http://mashable.com/2017/06/04/items-for-outer-space-people/)
The Lunar Pro is a softball-sized, one-pound orb that recreates the moon and all its craters, edges, and other topography based on NASA's lunar orbiter data (https://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/). It's made at a resolution of 4,000 DPI, which is incredibly precise. It's then molded with a poly resin material that is hand-painted to mimic what the moon looks like. It comes shockingly close. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/09/moon-lunar-model-ar-app/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Space (http://mashable.com/space/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Moon (http://mashable.com/category/moon/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Augmented Reality (http://mashable.com/category/augmented-reality/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Science (http://mashable.com/science/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Vr Ar (http://mashable.com/category/vr-ar/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/rWgETXzCTKQ