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Some perspective would always be nice, or a distance legend. Like, could you see a human from that distance? A football stadium? A banana?
10 0 ReplyYou could probably calculate how far out they are by using the curve of the moon visible in the picture
9 0 ReplyWould you need to know information about the lens of the camera? A wide angle lens would make the curve look bigger.
5 0 ReplyAnd would make any humans standing down there smaller.
3 0 ReplyIn seriousness though, assuming the solar panels are straight lines the camera’s aspect ratio could be determined from that.
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is that not public knowledge?
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They should definitely drop a banana on the moon’s surface
6 0 ReplyOrbital banana bombing the moon. Get it done, India.
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BBC News: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-66425524 Wikipedia's orbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-3#Orbit_raising_and_station_keeping Isro on Twitter: https://twitter.com/isro/status/1688248504458846208
The retrofiring of engines brought it closer to the Moon's surface, now to 170 km x 4313 km.
For reference, the ISS's height is ~413 km above Earth.
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