Chang'e 3 landing and first lunar day of operations, Including landing site geology and localization |
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Chang'e 3 landing and first lunar day of operations, Including landing site geology and localization |
 Dec 14 2013, 09:20 PM
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Dec 14 2013, 09:24 PM
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I watched the deployment (previously recorded). VERY interesting deployment method. Looked like it rolled forward onto the top of the ramp, which itself was subsequently lowered to contact the surface for roll-off. Don't we've seen a schema like that before.
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Dec 14 2013, 09:26 PM
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Great coverage. HD res update every second.
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Dec 14 2013, 09:27 PM
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They showed the lander's area, presumably as imaged by the monitoring camera.
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Dec 14 2013, 09:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Emily just posted an animation of Yutu driving onto the surface. As she says "Woohoo!".
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakda...l-for-yutu.html |
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Dec 14 2013, 09:56 PM
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my friend Tezio from the French "forum de la conquete spatiale" has authorized me to re-post here his amazing analysis of the landing trajectory of CE-3.
He assembled all the available images and took the center of each one, assuming the camera to be looking at the local vertical. The probe had no rotation at all. Only near the surface, it backed up and moved a bit to the right before touching down.     |
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Dec 14 2013, 10:18 PM
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Wonderful piece of work.... It looks like the edge of large crater just a few tens of metres to the west of the landing site.
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Dec 14 2013, 10:20 PM
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shadow on the left so rover is facing south? |
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Dec 14 2013, 10:24 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 555 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Scotland (Ecosse, Escocia) Member No.: 759 |
No, Rover drove off in the direction of north. Sun on right (east), and shadows on left (west) side.
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Dec 14 2013, 10:25 PM
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No, facing north. It's morning, the sun is in the east, the shadow points west.
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Dec 14 2013, 10:33 PM
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Which means Earth is somewhere behind; apparently new images will coming in the next half day or so.
I'm wondering how far the rover will drive before nightfall; they might want to stay within site of the lander the first night.... |
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Dec 14 2013, 10:46 PM
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 Removed the CCTV captions by overlaying lower part of frame and cropping  Larger version here. 1.93mb |
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Dec 14 2013, 10:52 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 14 2013, 06:25 PM)  No, facing north. It's morning, the sun is in the east, the shadow points west. Phil Kenny and Phil thanks for un confusing me |
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Dec 14 2013, 11:19 PM
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QUOTE (Astro0 @ Dec 14 2013, 10:46 PM) Removed the CCTV captions by overlaying lower part of frame and cropping Awesome! Wonderful to see it rolling on the Moon... (and congratulations to the Chinese space program for this achievement...) |
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Dec 15 2013, 12:04 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2089 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Are these new photos from Xinhua? They show both longer tracks than the TV coverage and a new view that looks a little lower to the surface (possibly from the rover cameras?)
https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/411999590443786240 |
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