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China's Chang'e 3 Lander and Yutu Rover Camera Data Released
AmiMoJo writes: Detailed high resolution images from the recent Chinese moon mission have been released. Links to the original Chinese sites hosting the images are available, but Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society has kindly organized them in English. Images show the lander, the rover and the surface of the earth. An interactive map is also available, built from data collected by the mission.
To rent the American Lunar Landing movie stages?
Images show the lander, the rover and the surface of the earth.
The point of faking a moon landing is to hide the fact that you never made it there.
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It is good to see the fascination with footprints on extraterrestrial soil crosses cultural lines.
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The money is being spent feeding scientists and engineers, and all the people from whom they buy things.
Sure, we've taken a limited amount of material entirely out of Earth's biosphere. But I understand that lunar landers are typically pretty tough and tasteless, no matter how you prepare them.
who believes they are not effected by her alternating magnetic resonance? waves to lunar visitors...
How can this and other tools like Google translate exist when by definition copyright requires the author's permission to publish a translation of the original work? I am not arguing for copyright. I am just trying to understand the legal justification in these cases, if any, such as fair use.
They actually dredged most of it up out of the south china sea.... US dumped it there to destroy the evidence of the moon landing being faked... next thing you know china is building an island there and all the sudden has a rover on the moon....
according to the wingnut con theorists, the Americans were kicked off the moon by the aliens that were already there...
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Those millions of dollars spent researching moon rocks would be much better spent feeding the starving people on planet earth.
The millions of dollars spent paving your country's roads would also be better spent feeding the starving people. And the million spent in movies, sports or producing reality shows.
Why is it always science that has to justify its usefulness for the good of humanity compared to feeding the poor? Why not every other human venture, of which the immense majority add a minuscule value compared to space exploration?
parsing word grammar is a symptom?
Too right.
if it was not for science we would all be sitting in caves crapping into a holes.
And all the people who stave that the money could be spent feeding others etc are the very same people who do not give all the hard earned monry away to feed people. Do they see a starving person and give then a $1000 so the needy can eat and cloth themselves. No, these fuckers was past and expect others to donate.
whether i'm looking at upper or outer mongolia. surely, china will emulate this aspect of nasa?
effects every move we make? not much metal in photons?
The surface of the Earth ? I can see that out my window! Why send a rover to the Moon?
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So is *this* moon landing fake too? :-)
Why bother? All you need is some Portland cement, black/grey backgrounds and a really bright light. I'm sure the Chinese can come up with that stuff.
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Seems like everyone who lands a rover on a foreign body in the solar system uses it to draw a dick in the dirt.
In the "Tracks in the Regolith" image, there are yellow streaks in the tire tracks that look like artifacts from color correction or brightness (over-) enhancement.
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You have just described the basic principle of "other people's money".
" But I understand that lunar landers are typically pretty tough and tasteless, no matter how you prepare them."
But what the hipsters hate is that if you boil them first, they still taste better than kale.
Actually, this is amazing imaging.
I would never have expected anything near a 4:3 aspect ratio. 40:3, maybe, but certainly not 4:3.
Kudos.
Hmpf, another mis-moderation due to stuck focus.
if it was not for science we would all be sitting in caves crapping into a holes.
Aren't you supposed to crap OUT of a holes?
How come these pictures look so good, but everything we see from NASA looks like it was taken with a 1968 camera?
soon NASA will be designing the missions and space craft and China will handle building them and executing the missions.
So like it always has been? We create the tech and China steals/copies it? Don't get me wrong, it's nice to see someone using the tech since we aren't anymore.