Chang'e 3's landing site panorama released! (Chinese news report)(or not, because I'm still trying to find that photo on the Internet..... )
Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 12/20/2013 12:28 pmChang'e 3's landing site panorama released! (Chinese news report)(or not, because I'm still trying to find that photo on the Internet..... )Try this:http://v.qq.com/cover/c/ctklokz7zk0a9y3.html?vid=f0013ghuxv8&start=31
The Chinese advert for Pizza Hut got a laugh when I put that video up on the big screen here. Then a sigh, seen as we're not going back there.
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.
Quote from: elakdawalla on 12/20/2013 02:17 pmLooks 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.I think you need to watch this againhttp://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/fsustavros/clips/louis-ck-technologyFocus on the part where he says "will you give it a second?!! Its going through space!!"
China's Yutu "naps", awakens and exploresEnglish.news.cn 2013-12-20 23:30:45 BEIJING, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- China's moon rover, Yutu (Jade Rabbit), continued exploring after a "nap", according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence on Friday.At about 8:00 p.m. Beijing Time, the six-wheeled rover started moving again after shutting down its subsystems on Dec. 16.Yutu has had to deal with direct solar radiation raising the temperature to over 100 degrees centigrade on his sunny side, while his shaded side simultaneously fell below zero.
The Neutral Mass Spectrometer (NMS) was running in a mode that would allow it to monitor native lunar atmospheric species, as well as those resulting from Chang'e 3's propulsion system. These combustion products were known to include diatomic nitrogen, water, diatomic hydrogen and several other species.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/12201542-change-3-and-ladee-updates.htmlQuote from: Rick Elphic (LADEE team)The Neutral Mass Spectrometer (NMS) was running in a mode that would allow it to monitor native lunar atmospheric species, as well as those resulting from Chang'e 3's propulsion system. These combustion products were known to include diatomic nitrogen, water, diatomic hydrogen and several other species.Combustion products including diatomic Nitrogen and diatomic hydrogen?? What propellant yields these species as exhaust?
Quote from: AJA on 12/21/2013 01:28 pmhttp://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/12201542-change-3-and-ladee-updates.htmlQuote from: Rick Elphic (LADEE team)The Neutral Mass Spectrometer (NMS) was running in a mode that would allow it to monitor native lunar atmospheric species, as well as those resulting from Chang'e 3's propulsion system. These combustion products were known to include diatomic nitrogen, water, diatomic hydrogen and several other species.Combustion products including diatomic Nitrogen and diatomic hydrogen?? What propellant yields these species as exhaust?Hydrazine.