Good job, India.
Great to see it. I’m rooting for a successful mission!
Some perspective would always be nice, or a distance legend. Like, could you see a human from that distance? A football stadium? A banana?
You could probably calculate how far out they are by using the curve of the moon visible in the picture
Would you need to know information about the lens of the camera? A wide angle lens would make the curve look bigger.
And would make any humans standing down there smaller.
In seriousness though, assuming the solar panels are straight lines the camera’s aspect ratio could be determined from that.
is that not public knowledge?
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.
They should definitely drop a banana on the moon’s surface
Orbital banana bombing the moon. Get it done, India.
बेहतरीन।
