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Panoramic Picture Taken By China's Moon Lander

Posted by timothy on from the ok-but-where's-the-starbucks? dept.

Taco Cowboy writes "Perhaps it's not much, but China has released a panoramic view of the moonscape where their lander has landed. They 'stitched' up some 60 photos taken by 3 cameras on the Chang'e 3 lander, taken from 3 different angles — Vertical, 15 degrees up, and 15 degrees down. From the picture, there is a significant sized crater is seen, several meters wide, off to the left of Yutu, the (jade rabbit) moon rover, and located only about 10 meters away from the Chang'e-3 lander."

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  1. Spacecraft just went to sleep by mbone · · Score: 4, Informative

    CCTV just announced that the Sun has set at Mare Imbrium and the Chang'E lander and the Yutu rover both have gone to sleep for the night.

  2. NOT a Chinese released panorama by mbone · · Score: 5, Informative

    The image linked to is apparently from the Universe Today. As the linked article says :

    To make it easier to see and sense ‘the new view from the Moon’, we have created screen shots from the rather low resolution TV broadcast and assembled them into a photo mosaic of the landing site - see above and below mosaic by Marco Di Lorenzo and Ken Kremer.

    That's why it's fuzzy. It's screen scraped from a TV.

    1. Re:NOT a Chinese released panorama by lolococo · · Score: 5, Informative

      Well, in fact one of the commenters in this article linked to a set of much nicer pictures