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Chinese Moon Photo Doctored, Crater Moved
mytrip writes "A controversy over last week's photo of the lunar surface, allegedly from China's lunar spacecraft Chang'e, appears to be resolved. It's real but it isn't. An expert says the photo's resolution shows that it is of recent origin. However, for some inexplicable reason, someone on Earth edited the photo and moved a crater to a different location. 'In the week since the picture was released amid much fanfare in Beijing, there have been widespread rumors that the photo was a fake, copied from an old picture collected by a U.S. space probe. The photo from China's Chang'e 1 orbiter is clearly a higher-resolution view, with sunlight streaming from the northwest rather than the north. The mission's chief scientist, Ouyang Ziyuan, told the Beijing News that a new crater had been spotted on the Chang'e imagery — a crater that didn't appear on the US imagery. Lakdawalla determined that the crater in question wasn't exactly new — instead, it appeared to be a crater that had been moved from one spot on the picture to another spot slightly south.'"
It's a space station.
They moved it to cover up the obelisk!
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
... who on earth would do such a thing?
"The need to build the internet comes from something inside us, something programmed... something we can't resist."
probably a feng shui thing.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
They should have used the original movie set in New Mexico.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
You know those crazy craters, getting legs and all. Happens all the time.
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The main difference between Chinese and American moon missions: 30 minutes after the Chinese have explored the moon, they feel like exploring it again.
Proverbs 21:19
The US version looks way more realistic.
"A week in the lab saves an hour in the library"
http://xkcd.com/331/
Couldn't the additional small crater seen in the Chinese photo be from an asteroid collision that occurred after the Clementine picture was taken?
Yep, that is exactly what happened. The asteroid hit a rectangle of terrain from another spot in the old photograph and blasted it up in the air.... well of course the moon has no air but you know what I mean... and this rectangle of terrain landed intact at the new location. Quite simple and obvious really.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
http://xkcd.com/331/
You'll have to talk to your parents about that one.
Use of the chinese version of photoshop would be easy to test for, it has the lead-based paint bucket in place of the regular one...
Sure, even the most diligent scientists can forget correct procedure when caught up in euphoria or other pressures.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
When can we expect a better moderated Slashdot or people who can read?
That's going to be an in-game feature of Duke Nukem Forever.
Maybe, but the sword will be billed on his family.
http://www.dieblinkenlights.com
...That's because they didn't use the same original sound stage as NASA's faking of the moon, but soom cheap Chinese Z-movie knock-off. With Philipino actors.
...Yeah, but moving the crater a little bit further south made whole moon a lot more Feng Shui. Letting the Qi flow freely.
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"You did read the actual article before rebutting to a comment that told you the summary was inaccurate, right?"
Of course not. Besides this being Slashdot and RTFAing being discouraged, it would ruin my opportunity to be wildly inaccurate.
I read it later.
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