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bl968

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8. First paragraph is incorrect

Reply to True Blue Door (Original post)

Wed Nov 12, 2014, 03:16 PM

Nov 2014

Your first paragraph is totally incorrect based on the link you shared in your post. This is what happens when someone looks at the pretty picture but spends no time on the text...

At 16 o'clock on November 9, the service module carrying the camera in 540,000 km from Earth, at a distance of 920,000 kilometers moon shot clear of the Earth-Moon photo images.

The probe was 920,000km from the moon; only 540,000km from the Earth.

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Dizzying new photo from China's lunar probe. [View all] True Blue Door Nov 2014 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague Nov 2014 #1

Glorious exceptions. Difficult to relate to, though. True Blue Door Nov 2014 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague Nov 2014 #3

Agree about human exploration. That will really reinvigorate things. True Blue Door Nov 2014 #5

This still shows up on facebook alfredo Nov 2014 #10

thank you alfredo irisblue Nov 2014 #11

Welcomed. In one of the videos, if you look closely, you can see a blue sprite. alfredo Nov 2014 #12

"service module" - another indication this is a step towards human lunar base. nt bananas Nov 2014 #4

Eventually, but I don't think China's in any hurry. True Blue Door Nov 2014 #6

beautiful allan01 Nov 2014 #7

First paragraph is incorrect bl968 Nov 2014 #8

Ah, yes. Good catch. I had read that, but it's a bit of a garbled translation True Blue Door Nov 2014 #9

A deadly hostile planet, inhabited largely by robotic blood-sucking monsters nikto Nov 2014 #13

It would be totally accurate to say that Earth True Blue Door Nov 2014 #14

Of course the moon is in the foreground. JohnnyRingo Nov 2014 #15

No, the Moon is in the background, as the text (quoted in reply #8) confirms muriel_volestrangler Nov 2014 #16

Math doesn't add up to me. JohnnyRingo Nov 2014 #17

Your figure for the Earth is incorrect: muriel_volestrangler Nov 2014 #18

Second Rate father founding Nov 2014 #19

Not even close. True Blue Door Nov 2014 #20

Moon is behind Earth in this picture. Orsino Nov 2014 #21

Good point. True Blue Door Nov 2014 #22