Chinese Moon Photo Doctored, Crater Moved 272
mytrip writes "A controversy over last week's photo of the lunar surface, allegedly from China's lunar spacecraft Chang'e, appears to be resolved. It's real but it isn't. An expert says the photo's resolution shows that it is of recent origin. However, for some inexplicable reason, someone on Earth edited the photo and moved a crater to a different location. 'In the week since the picture was released amid much fanfare in Beijing, there have been widespread rumors that the photo was a fake, copied from an old picture collected by a U.S. space probe. The photo from China's Chang'e 1 orbiter is clearly a higher-resolution view, with sunlight streaming from the northwest rather than the north. The mission's chief scientist, Ouyang Ziyuan, told the Beijing News that a new crater had been spotted on the Chang'e imagery — a crater that didn't appear on the US imagery. Lakdawalla determined that the crater in question wasn't exactly new — instead, it appeared to be a crater that had been moved from one spot on the picture to another spot slightly south.'"
That's not a moon (Score:3, Funny)
Coverup! (Score:5, Funny)
Well, now... (Score:5, Funny)
Feng Shui (Score:5, Funny)
See? (Score:5, Funny)
Someone didn't read the NIE (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Coverup! (Score:5, Funny)
Trouble with the Chinese moon missions (Score:5, Funny)
Chinese knockoffs (Score:5, Funny)
Oblig. (Score:4, Funny)
Actually... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Can the small crater be from a recent collision (Score:5, Funny)
Yep, that is exactly what happened. The asteroid hit a rectangle of terrain from another spot in the old photograph and blasted it up in the air.... well of course the moon has no air but you know what I mean... and this rectangle of terrain landed intact at the new location. Quite simple and obvious really.
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Re:It's a shop (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bad summary (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ON the topic of it being a fake (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bad summary (Score:5, Funny)
Sure, even the most diligent scientists can forget correct procedure when caught up in euphoria or other pressures.
Re:Doctored my ass (Score:5, Funny)
When can we expect a better moderated Slashdot or people who can read?
That's going to be an in-game feature of Duke Nukem Forever.
Re:Who will pay the ultimate price? (Score:4, Funny)
Quick! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's not a moon (Score:3, Funny)
More jokes.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who will pay the ultimate price? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's a shop (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Bad summary (Score:5, Funny)
Of course not. Besides this being Slashdot and RTFAing being discouraged, it would ruin my opportunity to be wildly inaccurate.
I read it later.