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.'"

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MMMM

[dippitydoo]

Cost of Sushi? 15 dollars Cost of Sushi in a crater that moves? Priceless

Falun Gong

[Iphtashu Fitz]

Must be some sort of Falun Gong coverup.

Tag this story 'Claters'

[Anonymous Coward]

N/T

Re:Feng Shui

[superpulpsicle]

Another retarded comment. I don't see how americans claim to be supporter of Taiwan yet continue to diss their culture time and again. You are targeting the wrong group with your joke. China is the one today that hates fungshui. Their government bans it. Is like pointing fingers at Christians and laughing at Allah.

Re:Who will pay the ultimate price?

[PopeRatzo]

While harakiri is a Japanese tradition in modern china the government just shoots you for the disgrace you cause the country.

In the US, when you disgrace the country, George Bush gives you a presidential pardon.

I suppose you believe the Iranians are working on nuclear weapons, too.

When it comes down to it, I'd take a sloppy photoshop job on some moon pics over ginned up "intelligence" about some bogus WMD programs to start a worthless, horribly destructive war that is designed to last for decades. I mean, if you're government is going to embarrass you, it's better if thousands of people don't have to die or lose limbs for it.

Dontcha think? Or don't you?

Re:Heads will fly over this

[Opportunist]

I think you got it wrong. In Soviet China, this flies over heads.