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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 mwissel · · Score: 5, Funny

      Because it won't have signal up there, stupid.

    2. Re:It's 2013 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yup, I did the calculations and it would be very close to $20,000. The weight of the device would add ~$10 to the total cost of fuel required, plus $100 to buy the iPhone itself and $19,890 over 2 years for the contract to get an iPhone subsidised down to $100 in the first place.

    3. Re:It's 2013 by number6x · · Score: 5, Funny

      You left out the roaming charges.

    4. Re:It's 2013 by Alsee · · Score: 5, Funny

      Those roaming charges are going to be....
      astronomical.

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  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

  3. Is this faked too? by mu51c10rd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, the Gobi desert looks eerily familiar to the Nevada desert...

  4. Clearly this has been Photoshopped. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I'm sure China didn't pay for the license.