Chandrayaan-1 Video

Just found this its got some video's of the Lunar Flyby of Chandrayaan-1
www.chandrayaan-i.com...
I do not know if it's me but to me ti just dose not look right.
have a look see what you think.

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It's nice to see they have planed another mission for 2013 with Russia a long wait though.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning 2nd moon mission Chandrayaan-2 in 2013. Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) is joining with ISRO for development of Chandrayaan-2 Lander/Rover.

From www.chandrayaan-i.com...

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It never ceases to amze me we can send a man to the moon (maybe lol), we can read the newsprint on an article from space but we can't take proper pictures of the moon I wonder why?

reply to post by jpmail


That's true but this video just look wrong to me it dose not look real.
Is it just me or can anybody else see this?

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Thats computer generated isnt it.

The flight path is dead straight, no movement in the horizontal at all, and the moon itself, seems very plastic.

reply to post by multichild


Well i'm no expert on this sort of thing but i do agree it dose not look real it looks like they filmed a model.

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I found the same video on youtube

www.youtube.com...

Here the info states that it is

A movie generated using multiple view images taken by Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) of Chandrayaan-1. The Terrain Mapping Camera,built by ISRO's Space Applications Centre(SAC) of Ahmedabad, is taking excellent pictures of Moon's surface from Chandrayaan-1's 100 km high orbit from the Lunar surface.

So basically it is a series of photos taken from the probe that have been stitched together to form a moving image, hence the 'unreal' look of the video and the flatness of the moon surface.

Why this isn't made explicit on the Chandrayaan website, I don't know. Ideally it would be labelled as an animation derived from the probe's data and make it clear that it is not actual real-time video.

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This is the same as what the Japanese did but it dose not state that on the Indian site that is misleading.
Thank you for your input.

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