China releases HD photos of the moon taken from Chang'e 3 lander and Yutu rover

[yuiyoshida]

Earlier this month the China National Space Administration released hundreds of spectacular images taken from the lunar rover Yutu (Jade Rabbit) and Chang'e lander which touched down on the moon over two years ago.

The images were taken in December 2013 by cameras installed on the Chang'e 3 lander and Yutu rover which made the first soft-landing on the moon in 37 years, becoming the third nation to do so after the US and former Soviet Union.

While anyone can make an account with the Science and Application Center for Moon and Deepspace Exploration and download the photos themselves, the actual process is reportedly less than smooth to go through.

Fortunately for us, Emily Lakdawalla from Planetary Society has painstakingly gone through the database and his hosting some of the images on the society's website.

http://shanghaiist.com/2016/01/31/china_releases_hd_images_of_moon_lunar_surface.php

[SoLeftIAmRight]

1. many thanks for this post

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[yuiyoshida]

2. I was like...

Holy crap, when did China land on the Moon?? That's a bfd!! And when did this make headlines?

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. It did make headlines

in 2013, when they landed. But it was not anywhere the kind of headlines or time spent on it as when Apollo did.

[yuiyoshida]

7. If it was mentioned on DU

I never saw it.. I missed it some how.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. There is a lot of crap that is never posted on DU

to be honest. So it is possible it was never posted here. I heard it in passing in NPR, and the evening news.

[bemildred]

3. Nice beach.

(Good for them.)

[yuiyoshida]

4. That beach is a bit dry for my taste

and that ocean breeze is non existent!

[LittleBlue]

5. Hopefully they're doing soil analysis

I've always wondered how much Helium 3 is on the moon.

Congrats to China making it to the moon.

[madinmaryland]

9. The photos were taken in a studio in Hollywood just as the Apollo pictures were...

I saw it on the internets, so it must be true!!



BTW, Great Pic's and thanks for the thread!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. Cool

[karadax]

11. It's too bad they won't drive over to show everyone the Apollo relics.

It'd be nice to put that we didn't land on the moon nonsense to bed for good.