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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?
It's right there, on the lens, blurring everything!
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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.
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.
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
...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.
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.
Chang'e-1, -2 and -3 **COMBINED** have cost about a billion dollars, or less than a dollar per Chinese citizen. The first two were orbiters/mappers, the third is the lander, all three have been complete successes so far. That war in Iraq that (IIRC) you were so enthusiastic about a few years ago? Cost of that is over $3,500 per US citizen. It was an utter failure.
Even if this was just propaganda I think the Chinese have gotten the better deal.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
And, Chang'E 2 then went on and flew by Asteroid (4179) Toutatis, as a bonus, for a tiny fraction of the cost of a new spacecraft launch.
Scheduling that a few months in advance with a spacecraft that was not intended for deep space puts China up in the first ranks of spacefaring nations IMHO.
Chinese Jet Pilot is a reference from the movie Army of Darkness. It's like saying: Yeah, and I played darts with queen of England. I believe he's saying your full of shit.