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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. It's 2013 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And this is the best image quality their chosen on-board imaging device can deliver?

    1. Re:It's 2013 by Nethemas+the+Great · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Seems to me that the nano/micro-sat crowd is demonstrating that to not really be as much of an issue.

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  2. Re:NOT a Chinese released panorama by markdavis · · Score: 2, Interesting

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

    Well, certainly doesn't look like any "TV" I have been watching for the last many years!

    China- the 1950's called and would like their equipment back now, if you are done with it.

  3. Re:Huh by rubycodez · · Score: 3, Interesting

    do you have any source for your claim that "multitudes" "starve and die", or did you make that nonsense up? Here's a fact for you, hunger rate in U.S. much higher than China

  4. Firefly by mrflash818 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...good for them!

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