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Panoramic Picture Taken By China's Moon Lander
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."
And this is the best image quality their chosen on-board imaging device can deliver?
Can't they focus that camera ?
We are Dead Stars looking back Up at the Sky
It's right there, on the lens, blurring everything!
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Is there news story you can link to? This is not news while there is no way of even checking if the summary matches the story.
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.
please return my mickey mouse webcam
The image linked to is apparently from the Universe Today. As the linked article says :
That's why it's fuzzy. It's screen scraped from a TV.
Wow, the Gobi desert looks eerily familiar to the Nevada desert...
And I'm sure China didn't pay for the license.
China's moon landing is a lot of ho hum, the real story here is they felt good about dropping the billions to go where we have already been (for no real purpose) while multitudes in their country starve and die.
The entire mission was a hood ornament for some politicians cock.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
such a shame to see all those comments making fun of China when we should be happy about their huge accomplishment!
There are no stars! ... and the shadows are wrong somehow! ... and the wave pattern proves something something something! ... and ... and ... there is no Moon!
...good for them!
Uh, Linux geek since 1999.
They should have used Hugin, an open source GUI based on Panotools, for stitching that panorama, it could have dealt with the uneven light levels caused by falloff of the CCD, and made a much, MUCH nicer panorama out of it.
They need to visit the Vignetting page to learn how to fix things.
I just wish our government would want to get some better pictures and send a probe up just to one-up China. It would make for better news than yet another government shutdown, doomsday counter until a budget default, or yet another celebrity having affluenza and ending up in rehab.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Or perhaps your government should do something positive for their people instead?
So that's not a comet near the horizon on the right of the image?
darn
They feared that it could be used to suppress protest or support unpopular rule.
Are we sure the thing is actually there, and these aren't pictures downloaded off the internet?
What? No! Screw us!
Nice idea, but the Libertarians won't allow it. After all, they can't "prove" that the government is a failure until they first make it fail.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
Scientists do not understand that people want to see a nice quality inspiring images from Lune, from Mars, etc. They are not interested in X-ray diagrams, or geological survey results.
Still it is people who pay for these flights. I am sure it is doable to shoot good JPG files on Mars or Lune. And instead we get blurry low resolution images.
I read that an engineer had to buy a photo camera for Mars rover with his own money. Otherwise we would not see any pictures at all.
I think the best photo & video camera is the first, the most important device to place on a rover. And to send to the people of Earth the quality images the first minute after landing.
And not broken panoramas, but a nice even high resolution panorama. There is open source software called Hugin to make nice panoramas.
Does this look like a sound-stage in Dong-bu to anyone else?
Since when do the Libertarians have any say about what goes on?
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Since the Kochs, Olins, Waltons, and their ilk managed to buy control of Congress.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin