Panoramic Picture Taken By China's Moon Lander 125
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from the ok-but-where's-the-starbucks? dept.
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."
Spacecraft just went to sleep (Score:5, Informative)
CCTV just announced [youtube.com] 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.
NOT a Chinese released panorama (Score:5, Informative)
The image linked to is apparently from the Universe Today [universetoday.com]. As the linked article says :
That's why it's fuzzy. It's screen scraped from a TV.
Hugin (Score:3, Informative)
They should have used Hugin [sourceforge.net], 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 [panotools.org] page to learn how to fix things.
Re:It's 2013 (Score:4, Informative)
Those are mostly operating below the Van Allen belts, aren't they? There's no such protection on the moon.
Re:NOT a Chinese released panorama (Score:5, Informative)