China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon

[pErvinalia]

The US presumably could track the whole process with radar or other satellite based technologies. I doubt they are faking it. Unless the US is in on it too!1! :tinfoil: :tinfoilhat: :foilhat: :tinhat: :conspiracy: :ffs:

[Faithfree]

The US presumably could track the whole process with radar or other satellite based technologies. I doubt they are faking it. Unless the US is in on it too!1! :tinfoil: :tinfoilhat: :foilhat: :tinhat: :conspiracy: :ffs:

They would certainly be listening in on all the radio communications; even if encrypted, it would be clear if they were coming from the surface of the moon or not.

[Faithfree]

The moon looks a little more brown than when the 'Mericans went. Someone is telling fib-wibs.

That was exactly my analysis of the photo.

Here's a more complete image -

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/c ... -1.1547691

To me the landscape looks okay, just that the colours are wonky. Either uncalibrated raw images, or someone has done too much color enhancement - perhaps upped the saturation too much.


You can see the same effects on some Apollo images, like the two versions of the same image below from different web sites. Both seem to show too much brown or green compared to the more standard hand-held Apollo images.

[cronus]

Still doesn't look right down in PS truview photoflair (NASA image enhancement plugin) but you can see about six striations running across right to left like someone has gone across the ground with a trowel, and the color cast makes it look like it is being shone on by a direct source like a overhead light.

[Faithfree]

[Clinton Huxley]

Chinese moon Lander conspiracy theories? Oh, fuck off.

[Faithfree]

Chinese moon Lander conspiracy theories? Oh, fuck off.

You knew it had to happen.

[Clinton Huxley]

The European Space Agency is helping out with telemetry, so they are in the conspiracy too....

[cronus]

There are no stars exactly like the NASA images. Yet space is full of stars.

[mistermack]

It's no big deal.

North Korea has also landed a rover on the moon.
It is bigger and better than the Chinese one. It was announced by the great dear yummy leader at a public meeting. Everybody clapped.

[Rum]

For those who don't know, these are Chinese Mooncakes.

They are not telling us the whole story by any stretch. The conspiracy goes deep. Very deep.

[Ayaan]

The moon looks a little more brown than when the 'Mericans went. Someone is telling fib-wibs.

That was exactly my analysis of the photo.

False color image?

[cronus]

The moon looks a little more brown than when the 'Mericans went. Someone is telling fib-wibs.

That was exactly my analysis of the photo.

False color image?

Trying to make it look habitable and enticing for the first chinkanauts who will risk life and limb going?