Hi guys don't know if you have a link below to this but here is the LROCs version of events. Chang e 3 can be seen as a small white dot in the centre of the right hand image (with a shadow)
-- Edited by The Genealogist on Wednesday 29th of January 2014 03:57:49 PM
I am somewhat surprised that the space agencies do not seem interested in what is really on the lunar surface, and Mars as well for that matter. Unusual surface objects during the Phoenix mission were seen in their thousands but NASA did not seem interested in these particular features. All they wanted to do was to find out the chemical composition of the terrain and whether or not water-ice was available with a complete disregard for anything else that was on the surface. It seems that the same modus operandi exists with the latest Chinese mission. They have put a rover on the lunar surface with a complete disregard of the objects and other features it is rolling over. Examining the images close up it is plain to see that what is showing on the lunar surface at this location is not dirt or rocks but something else that appears to have deliberate and definite form.
Here is a slightly sharpened version of the image shown above. A close examination reveals that the shapes on the surface are not small rocks or dirt.
The colour saturation was reduced by 25%.
-- Edited by Timewarp on Saturday 28th of December 2013 09:35:05 AM
I have had another look at this Chang'e 3 image and something close to the rover's wheels caught my eye as being unusual and out of the ordinary.
To the right of the rover wheels is a light-coloured object that stands out.
I reduced the gamma right down in an effort to determine if the object is a rock or something else and whilst making this adjustment noticed that what is actually on the surface is not lunar dirt but some detail that is much more interesting.
The section was cropped then resized to 600 pixels wide.
Take a look at the image and see what you make of it.
Yeah ... There's lots of stuff here ... I wonder if the Chinese government will be more open than the US government about whats there. But somehow I doubt that. Its a matter of who ever gets there first with long term sustainability.
Whoever does it is going to be rich in alien tech. Even if they don't fine tech and only pieces of things we aren't able to reverse engineer there's still much intrinsic value due to the stuff being alien artifacts. But then again, the Chinese are masters at reverse engineering, then mass producing and then selling for cheap.
The same thought crossed my mind when I seen the image of the rover driving off the ramp on the soil, the astronauts also claimed that the fine dust would stick to everything, these new images show a soil totally different to the Apollo photographs
Is it just me or does the soil at this landing look very different to the powder-fine almost 'magnetic' soil at the US landing sites ? This looks coarser and almost damp (although I know that cannot be) but it is not throwing up dust clouds as it moves ?
Your image is showing many features on the landscape but the objects are very small and are probably no more than 3 to 10 millimetres in height.
I hope the Chinese mission team take a real close look at these small objects to determine exactly what they are as they do not look like ordinary rocks to me.
Note that the shapes of some of these surface objects look very artificial.
Congratulations to China on their latest space mission.
The lander has set down on the surface of the moon in the Bay of Rainbows and has already deployed the rover called 'Jade Rabbit'.
The first image from the camera onboard the rover has been received.
It would appear that artificial lighting may have been used for the capture as the luminance at centre of the image is much more intense than around the edges.
Two images are shown below. The first is the original download. I have resized the second image to 800 pixels and increased the colour saturation by 50%.
Take note of the surface detail in the foreground. It would seem there are some small shapes and other anomalous objects showing that shouldn't be there.