That is a very nice video of the Chang-E 3 landing event.
Attached are 2 jpegs and an animated GIF that I created from still frames of the first Chang-E 3 video released. Reference points are marked in the first frame and the last frame also shows some crater sizes and comparison to the Barringer Crater in Arizona in a LRO (LROC) image of the landing site.
The red ellipse and line pointing to the landing site are used to help the viewer maintain perspective. Frames were left upside down as presented by the Chinese video. On the horizon – “Monte Recti”, the northern perimeter of Mare Imbrium, looks very cool.
That line points to the landing site of the first Soviet lander/rover Luna 17 and Lunokhod 1, in 1970. The 2nd rover Lunokhod 2 was the last soft lander prior to Chang-E 3. It is hard to imagine their trajectory work being off by that much and still able to make lunar orbit. Just change of heart. It would have taken a few orbits to permit the lander’s orbital plane to line up with their originally intended. They didn’t waste any time deploying the rover and maybe didn’t want to waste time in orbit.
Here is a dropbox link to the animated gif (full res) that I tried uploading. Comments don’t seem to accept AGIFs. The first frame is paused 5 seconds. https://www.dropbox.com/s/c…
That is a very nice video of the Chang-E 3 landing event.
Attached are 2 jpegs and an animated GIF that I created from still frames of the first Chang-E 3 video released. Reference points are marked in the first frame and the last frame also shows some crater sizes and comparison to the Barringer Crater in Arizona in a LRO (LROC) image of the landing site.
The red ellipse and line pointing to the landing site are used to help the viewer maintain perspective. Frames were left upside down as presented by the Chinese video. On the horizon – “Monte Recti”, the northern perimeter of Mare Imbrium, looks very cool.
i wonder what the graphic at about 2:10 means ? 400km off target ??
That line points to the landing site of the first Soviet lander/rover Luna 17 and Lunokhod 1, in 1970. The 2nd rover Lunokhod 2 was the last soft lander prior to Chang-E 3. It is hard to imagine their trajectory work being off by that much and still able to make lunar orbit. Just change of heart. It would have taken a few orbits to permit the lander’s orbital plane to line up with their originally intended. They didn’t waste any time deploying the rover and maybe didn’t want to waste time in orbit.
Here is a dropbox link to the animated gif (full res) that I tried uploading. Comments don’t seem to accept AGIFs. The first frame is paused 5 seconds. https://www.dropbox.com/s/c…
Cool. Apparently Dropbox doesn’t do in-place animated gifs too so I downloaded it.
Yes, noticed that too. Maybe I’ll mention to them. The Web is still maturing isn’t it but its evolved a long ways from Mosaic.
Last year we had Mohawk Guy and Curiosity, this year Chris Hadfield and Chang’e 3.
I think this is really cool and I want to see more. I want a lander/rover with continous “live” HD or better 4K youtube feed. 🙂
not practical, and unnecessary.