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Apollo Discussions => The Reality of Apollo => Topic started by: onebigmonkey on January 29, 2018, 03:13:40 PM

Title: Chandrayaan and Apollo 17
Post by: onebigmonkey on January 29, 2018, 03:13:40 PM
A while ago I had a look for Apollo 17 coverage by India's Chandrayaan, and all I could find was fairly low res images taken by their HYSI (Hyper Spectral Imaging) camera - the Terrain Mapping Camera strip did not appear on their mosaic. I had a light bulb moment and looked at the orbit the HYSI image was taken on, and sure enough on searching there was the high resolution version.

After much processing I have come up with this: an LRO screengrab is on the left, the Chandrayaan TMC one is on the right.

(https://i.imgur.com/CE8DAzN.png)

There are two very coincidental dark blobs at the same location as the LM and LRV. There is also a suggestion of tracks.

I'm going to go over the Aft and Fore camera versions (this one is Nadir) to see if there are any better views :)
Title: Re: Chandrayaan and Apollo 17
Post by: BertieSlack on January 30, 2018, 03:18:22 PM
What's the resolution of Chandrayaan?
Title: Re: Chandrayaan and Apollo 17
Post by: onebigmonkey on January 30, 2018, 05:52:22 PM
Nominally 5m so not enough to get hardware, but with enough contrast enhancementioned it does very well :)

At its best it is much better than Kaguya, it's just a shame it's all buried on such a clunky website and needs really flaky software to access it.