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Jade Rabbit Spotted By American Eagle (LRO)

Posted by Soulskill on from the hey-there-little-buddy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Having already imaged the Apollo landing sites on the Moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has now added China's recent lander and rover to its collection of snapshots."

7 of 58 comments (clear)

  1. Prey! by riverat1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the Jade Rabbit starts dodging wildly to escape the Eagle

    1. Re:Prey! by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Houston, this is Tranquility Base. The Eagle has breakfasted."

    2. Re:Prey! by hamisht · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Shhh. Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits"

    3. Re:Prey! by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Insightful

      For one thing, it fits with the moon theme. Where in the West, we see a Man in the Moon, China and Japan see a Rabbit in the Moon. The Chinese sometimes call this rabbit "the jade rabbit".

  2. Re:Summary... by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lunar Orbiter images a single pixel - it must be the Chineese lander.

    Actually, it was two double pixels if you look at the images... and they're right where the Chinese claim to be.

    I do wonder what the Chinese had to do to get access to the secret set at Universal Studios though....

  3. It had to be said... by sconeu · · Score: 5, Funny

    nuh uhhhh!

    --
    General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
  4. Re:Once Again by rev0lt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    America invented the 20th century between 1950 and 1970, during a time when the average wage doubled.

    If you look closely, it almost seems like the other "big" countries were a wreck during that period... as if they were recovering from a devastating war.