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 Dec 1 2020, 05:54 PM
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Dec 1 2020, 06:02 PM
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Congratulations to the Chinese! A bright bit of news after Arecibo!
Here's hoping for a successful return of Lunar silicon-based compound goodness! -------------------- "Thats no moon... IT'S A TRAP!"
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Dec 1 2020, 06:03 PM
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Today Moon New Population:
3 Stationary Bots 1 Rover Bot 1 Dead Bot 1 Temporary Bot All chinese, waiting for new foreign brothers to join then. Anyone? -------------------- "The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena"
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Dec 1 2020, 07:44 PM
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drilling has started (?) - here
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Dec 1 2020, 09:35 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10153 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Scrambling to catch up here. Thanks for all the great posts! (esp. Hungry4info). I was on Grandad duty, the only thing more important than a Moon landing.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Dec 1 2020, 10:24 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 1 2020, 10:35 PM)  I was on Grandad duty, the only thing more important than a Moon landing.  Having just got my 15-month-old grand-daughter to dance to the Muse's Knights Of Cydonia, I think I'm accomplishing my part in this respect. Maybe she'll dance there one day?Andy, and well done China. |
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Dec 2 2020, 01:53 AM
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Coverage on CGTN starting in a few minutes at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqGzUxfujbM
Hopefully we get the full landing movie and the surface images taken so far.... EDIT: They just played the full video of the landing, and what seems to be a surface panorama 15 minutes in (on a monitor behind the engineer being interviewed). |
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Dec 2 2020, 02:48 AM
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I'm sure we'll get some better images soon but here's what I've managed to screenshot. These are apparently video.
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Dec 2 2020, 03:15 AM
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Transfer of material from the sample acquisition device on the end of the arm and depositing it into the sample return canister. After they completed this operation, they began moving the robotic arm back into a sampling posture. Perhaps we'll get a number of scoops.
Also they showed a video of the drilling. It's not as exciting but we basically see this drill come down and enter the surface.
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Dec 2 2020, 03:22 AM
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Horizon!
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Dec 2 2020, 03:29 AM
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Looks like they've completed another scoop, which if I'm interpreting the image correctly is the third scoop. Also, another horizon image of the Moon that looks like it's part of a panorama projection showing that mountain to the south-west.
Edit: I've attached an image of lunar surface material falling into the sample return canister. Edit: They showed part of a panorama or a work area camera?
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Dec 2 2020, 03:51 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10153 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
My hero! Thanks for all this.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Dec 2 2020, 04:35 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1421 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
Here's a video that shows many of the activities from the sampling.
https://twitter.com/jackzhuanglia/status/1333991519703822336 -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Dec 2 2020, 04:55 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10153 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
A quick finder image sequence. The name of the hill, apparently just visible on the horizon in one view, is informal. Hills were formerly named from a nearby crater plus a Greek letter, and a few are still in use (Hansteen Alpha, for instance, and the only really official one, Hadley Delta), and those names are on the Apollo-era maps, but they are not official today (a mistake in my opinion).
Phil
-------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Dec 2 2020, 07:47 AM
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QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Dec 2 2020, 04:22 AM) Horizon! that boulder looks uncomfortably large and close |
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