Panoramas of the MOON

Now a Polish photographer has stitched together a collection of Nasa images into a series of stunning lunar panoramas to show the Apollo missions like they've never been seen before.

Maciej Winiarczyk, 43, used scenes from the US space agency's archive with Photoshop to edit them and join them together.

Two weeks ago, 10,000 photographs taken by the astronauts on the lunar missions in the 1960s and 70s were uploaded to Flickr by Apollo archivist Kipp Teague.

'I learned from the news that the images had been released,' Mr Winiarczyk, who lives in Wick, Caithness, said.

'As I was looking through them I noticed they were taken in sequence. That's when I thought they would made interesting panoramas.'

'New archives containing over 10,000 pictures and catalogued in chronological order as they were taken, gave me opportunity to explore the moon almost through the eyes of the astronauts and I also had a lot of fun when creating and editing my panoramas at the same time as learning new experience 'exploring' the moon'.

The Project Apollo archive was first created in 1999 by with the pictures later digitalised by scanning the original films on high resolution scanners.

Each picture has an average resolution of 16MP, which Maciej says makes them ideal for enhancing and editing.

(dailymail.co.uk)