"Resolution is even worse than Pathfinder 1997 first panorama! :-("No, it's better. The original is much better. We don't have that yet, but we will. Meanwhile, reflect on the work that went into creating the miserable version of the pan you have before you now. (Merry Christmas!)Phil
"Resolution is even worse than Pathfinder 1997 first panorama! :-("No, it's better. The original is much better.
QuoteLooks lovely, but I have to say it's really beginning to make me crazy that the "release" is a video camera panning around a television monitor.Doesn't surprise me in the least.It as it is nigh on impossible to get any stills, never mind hi res images about the Chinese space programe. Never seen a single image of Tiangong (apart from TV) in orbit for instance.Keith
Looks lovely, but I have to say it's really beginning to make me crazy that the "release" is a video camera panning around a television monitor.
It's almost as though they aren't entirely comfortable with freedom of information, for some reason.
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Quote from: Jason1701 on 12/21/2013 01:35 pmt = tonShouldn't that be "t = tonne"
新华网北京12月21日电截至12月21日20时05分,在北京航天飞行控制中心的遥操作控制下,“玉兔”号月球车顺利由B点行驶至C点和D点,行程约21米,在C点和D点均进行了全景相像、导航相机等图像成像和下传工作。北京中心根据实时传回的遥测数据分析判断,着陆器、月球车各分系统工作正常稳定。
Xinhua Beijing December 21As at 20:05 on December 21, in the remote operation control Beijing Aerospace Control Center, "rabbit" was the lunar rover successfully traveling from point B to point C and D, travel about 21 meters, at point C and D were carried out panorama likeness, image cameras and other imaging and navigation downstream work. Beijing center according to the real-time telemetry data returned by analysis and judgment, lander, the rover subsystems working properly stabilized.
Seems to be a new image:
Quote from: Will on 12/21/2013 05:39 pmIt's almost as though they aren't entirely comfortable with freedom of information, for some reason. They have different processes for publishing the data, slower than some NASA missions but not unheard of. They do publish the data, carefully and meticulously.
Seems like framegrab from the video in herehttp://www.chinanews.com/gn/2013/12-21/5647870.shtml
What I don't understand is: once they've sent data to national TV which also airs over internet, what else do they need to wait to release raw data?!?
Quote from: savuporo on 12/21/2013 05:48 pmQuote from: Will on 12/21/2013 05:39 pmIt's almost as though they aren't entirely comfortable with freedom of information, for some reason. They have different processes for publishing the data, slower than some NASA missions but not unheard of. They do publish the data, carefully and meticulously. What I don't understand is: once they've sent data to national TV which also airs over internet, what else do they need to wait to release raw data?!?
Anyway..let's stop whining over this.. please?
Quote from: jumpjack on 12/21/2013 07:43 pmQuote from: savuporo on 12/21/2013 05:48 pmQuote from: Will on 12/21/2013 05:39 pmIt's almost as though they aren't entirely comfortable with freedom of information, for some reason. They have different processes for publishing the data, slower than some NASA missions but not unheard of. They do publish the data, carefully and meticulously. What I don't understand is: once they've sent data to national TV which also airs over internet, what else do they need to wait to release raw data?!?Obviously for the same reason you're not satisfied with the TV grab, and are craving the raw images.I wouldn't be surprised if some science communication / media organisation in China had access to the high-res versions first - (for a yet-to-be-aired documentary perhaps?) similar to proprietary access periods for scientific data. After all, Mars One's basing their business plan on that. Maybe China wanted to do a pilot with Chang'E 3?Anyway..let's stop whining over this.. please?
Not whining, cobber. No huhu. Just saying that China is slow to share original data compared to NASA and ESA.