Wow.. you can really make out the highlands on the far side of the moon.
Split the gif into individual frames (I used ezgif.com/split) to illustrate that..
But the movie seems to show the lander touching down and leaving the engine ON for about 10 more long seconds. What happened?
A symposium between some press and scientists involved in Chang'e 3 was held today (17th Dec) between 6.00am and 8.00am (UTC) in Beijing. Here're some of the dialogues: (sorry for my poor translation, I'm not very familiar with the aerospace jargons )
Press: Any major technical differences between Chang'e 5 and Chang'e 3?Weiren WU: Lunar orbit rendezvous and docking, sample taking and drilling, sample packing and preservation, returning to the Earth.
Images of the Moon taken from ISS also often show such a pale brown color, although I don't know the specific camera white balance settings used. I can't speak for Apollo Hasselblad photography other than it looks spectacular.
Quote from: MadCow on 12/17/2013 11:06 pmA symposium between some press and scientists involved in Chang'e 3 was held today (17th Dec) between 6.00am and 8.00am (UTC) in Beijing. Here're some of the dialogues: (sorry for my poor translation, I'm not very familiar with the aerospace jargons )I think it was a great translation! Thanks a lot, some nice information in there!
Weiren WU: We tried our best, but we also prepared the worst. We had more than 200 troubleshooting plans. But in the end, none of them was used. We would be under immense pressure if it failed, however we believed Chinese people would understand.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjQ4OTUzMjY0.htmlFrom 9iflyhttp://bbs.9ifly.cn/thread-12967-1-1.html
Thanks for sharing that interview. I liked this part very much, so good luck to Chinese team
Quote from: saturnapollo on 12/17/2013 02:36 pmQuoteTo get back to Chang'e, I'm not that surprised the moon turned out brown. Every time I worked with spacecraft color imagery of the Moon, if I white-balanced it to the solar spectrum in vacuum, I got a similar brown color, whereas things like ice would turn out white. Same for Mercury.To be honest not quite sure how you arrived at that as it doesn't gel with Apollo Hasselblad images.It's just the way it is when using calibrated reflectance (I/F) data. The Moon invariably appears more reflective in the red end of the spectrum than in the blue end. If it was equally reflective, a RGB composite of such I/F data would end up perfectly grey (and it does do so for some Saturnian icy moons). I know this is at odds with how the moon appears to our eyes on the ground, but that's the end result when you put in a "hard" limit on the white balance, in this case completely dividing out the Sun's visible spectrum and don't do any other tweaks like a human eye probably would. I suspect Chang'e 3 cameras are operating in this mode. Hence why I said I wasn't very surprised at the outcome.Here's one example of what the Moon looked like to the Deep Impact spacecraft while transiting Earth's disc: http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6143/5927214387_6f0e61e39f_o.gifImages of the Moon taken from ISS also often show such a pale brown color, although I don't know the specific camera white balance settings used. I can't speak for Apollo Hasselblad photography other than it looks spectacular.
QuoteTo get back to Chang'e, I'm not that surprised the moon turned out brown. Every time I worked with spacecraft color imagery of the Moon, if I white-balanced it to the solar spectrum in vacuum, I got a similar brown color, whereas things like ice would turn out white. Same for Mercury.To be honest not quite sure how you arrived at that as it doesn't gel with Apollo Hasselblad images.
To get back to Chang'e, I'm not that surprised the moon turned out brown. Every time I worked with spacecraft color imagery of the Moon, if I white-balanced it to the solar spectrum in vacuum, I got a similar brown color, whereas things like ice would turn out white. Same for Mercury.
I noticed that the wheels changed in design completely.
Another lengthy translation of the same briefing posted by Emily now:http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/12172045-change-3-update.htmlData sharing with PDS as they did with Change-1 and 2 mentioned again too.