China's Chang'e 3 Lander and Yutu Rover Camera Data Released 56
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.
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Re:What about the people? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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" 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.
Re:What about the people? (Score:5, Insightful)
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?
surface of the earth (Score:3)
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.
Very good imaging (Score:5, Interesting)
It is good to see the fascination with footprints on extraterrestrial soil crosses cultural lines.
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Gag. Another lame imitation of more advanced US missions. I hope they don't think the territory is theirs. Ya, know, like the South China Sea.
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Gag. Another lame imitation of more advanced US missions.
Well, yes and no. Chinese have the best high res surface images from a rover, US has rovers on Mars, none on the Moon. US has excellent photos from manned missions but those are more than 40 years old. US has high res images from orbit but when considering surface images from a rover, the US has none and will not have any for years to come. First step is to dump the lunar phobia. Imagine something of Mars rover technology that can visit and analyze soils from places like craters that never receive sunlight
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soon NASA will be designing the missions and space craft and China will handle building them and executing the missions.
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If we could stumble past this tribalism between nations, maybe we could get on to hating people on other planets.
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who believes they are not effected by her alternating magnetic resonance?
[raises hand]
I'd certainly grant that my life is affected by the Moon's gravitational effects, but its magnetic effects are pretty tiny, and I can't see how one would consider them "resonance".
As for being effected -- no, I'm pretty sure I was effected [grammarist.com] by much more down-to-earth influences. Okay, maybe strong tides were a necessary condition for life to arise on Earth, so perhaps we were "effected" by the Moon's gravity, too. But not magnetism.
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i certainly am not effected by alternating magnetic resonance, lunar or otherwise. I am affected by all kinds of things, though, including what I ate this morning
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what does it mean to publish? Certainly, google translate *transforms* text, but it is only doing a transformation, it is neither "publishing" nor is it "making available". If google translate made available a document that was not otherwise available then that would amount to publishing. What they do is not publishing.
Although some authors try, they have no legal grounds for dictating how something they publish is consumed. For example, I might read a book in a silly voice. This definitely offends some ov
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The files reposted on the blog are under copyright. Following the source links on the blog indicates "The service agreement states that you can use the files as long as the purpose is for research or education and is non-commercial." Now what "non-commercial" means and if it applies to a private blog is another question.
Google Translate does not merely "transform" text. It "translates" works, thus the name Google "Translate". The argument relating to the word "transform" and its definition is changing the
But, but, but... (Score:2)
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Of course! Those 'scientist' worry about making the details of the lander and the moon surface 100% realistic but forget to photoshop a couple of stars in the background. Silly 'scientists'.
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Nope. Inbetween the stars there are more stars, so all they had to do was to color the sky white.
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Obviously they hide the stars to avoid people from locating the lander.
Otherwise, taking into account the absolute lack of security or military forces in the region, it could be stolen.
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Out my window (Score:2)
The surface of the Earth ? I can see that out my window! Why send a rover to the Moon?
Why all the dicks? (Score:1)
Seems like everyone who lands a rover on a foreign body in the solar system uses it to draw a dick in the dirt.
What's with the bright yellow? (Score:2)
In the "Tracks in the Regolith" image, there are yellow streaks in the tire tracks [imgur.com] that look like artifacts from color correction or brightness (over-) enhancement.
Re:What's with the bright yellow? (Score:5, Funny)
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Green cheese, not yellow.
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According to Wallace and Gromit, the moon is made of Wensleydale.
Image Quality (Score:2)