1,478 magnetic tapes
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There are 1,478 magnetic tapes from the five Lunar Orbiter missions. Each tape contains one high-resolution and one low-resolution camera exposure written simultaneously into the data. A full tape contains around 39GB of data for the two photographs, a 34GB full-resolution raw image, and the smaller 10GB low-res image.
July 23, 2010 10:25 AM PDT
Photo by: James Martin/CNET
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