First image from India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission
First image from India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission
Good job, India.
26ReplyGreat to see it. I'm rooting for a successful mission!
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Some perspective would always be nice, or a distance legend. Like, could you see a human from that distance? A football stadium? A banana?
10ReplyYou could probably calculate how far out they are by using the curve of the moon visible in the picture
9ReplyWould you need to know information about the lens of the camera? A wide angle lens would make the curve look bigger.
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BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-66425524 Wikipedia's orbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-3#Orbit_raising_and_station_keeping Isro on Twitter: https://twitter.com/isro/status/1688248504458846208
The retrofiring of engines brought it closer to the Moon's surface, now to 170 km x 4313 km.
For reference, the ISS's height is ~413 km above Earth.
6ReplyThey should definitely drop a banana on the moon’s surface
6ReplyOrbital banana bombing the moon. Get it done, India.
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बेहतरीन।
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