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pics @lemmy.world Dazza @lemmy.world 1y ago

First image from India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission

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Good job, India.
- Great to see it. I'm rooting for a successful mission!
Some perspective would always be nice, or a distance legend. Like, could you see a human from that distance? A football stadium? A banana?
- You could probably calculate how far out they are by using the curve of the moon visible in the picture
  
  Would you need to know information about the lens of the camera? A wide angle lens would make the curve look bigger.
- 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.
- They should definitely drop a banana on the moon’s surface
  
  Orbital banana bombing the moon. Get it done, India.
बेहतरीन।

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