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Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by H1ght3chHippie
I would really like to see a link to the original source.
And I want more of these Chinese High Res pics, preferably from the far side of the moon.
The Chinese images may be relatively high resolution, but they are still not as good a resolution as NASA's LRO images, which on average have a resolution twice as good as Chang'e 2:
LROC Gallery
Here's a good one. If you zoom in on the wall of the crater at the bottom, you can see rocks as small as a beach ball:
wms.lroc.asu.edu...
And here is one from the far side, with a resolution of 0.61 meters per pixel, which is higher resolution than The Chinese images:
wms.lroc.asu.edu...
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what a find! I would love to be one of the first to see inside and investigate a structure of alien design containing who knows what
Originally posted by volafox
Its curious, and somewhat scary. How many generations of humans have looked up at the moon on lonely nights, wondering if someone was looking back? Lo and behold, someone very well might have been, and might be doing so still. How curious! One must wonder if it is still inhabited, and if not, what a find! I would love to be one of the first to see inside and investigate a structure of alien design containing who knows what....
But somehow I can just see us humans going nuts over some alien's trashbin, amazed at what would amount to a leftover pizza box or soda can...
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by Biigs
I want to see more pics from chang'e 2 like this one: picture
If theres somthing there and nasa are being weird about releasing their best shots, china will!
MORE please china
That may be a more dramatic-looking image, but most images from NASA's LRO spacecraft are at a higher resolution than that image. Chang'e 2's best resolution is about 1 meter per pixel, while The LRO camera has a resolution of 0.5 m per pixel (and in some cases even better) -- which is about twice as fine of a resolution. Basically, the LRO can see objects 1/2 to even 1/4 the size that Chang'e 2 can.
The picture you linked is a 3D model that used 2D images and radar data to obtain that 3D look. It is certainly a dramatic picture, but it has a resolution 1.3 meters per pixel -- which is extremely good, but not as good as NASA's LRO image resolution.
Link to LROC Gallery
edit on 2/20/2012 by Soylent Green Is People because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Mojo1
The NASA original has clearly been tampered with. The big tell is the line/artifact in the image that also appears in the chinese version.
Originally posted by Zarniwoop
reply to post by anthonygillespie2012
anthonygillespie2012... You may have missed my post on page 3.
Do you have any comments at all regarding the evidence that the video in your OP is an image from Lunar Orbiter III (LO-3085) rather than from Chang'e2 and that the structures seen in the video are not found in the original Lunar Orbiter image?