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|    Alain Fournier to All    |
|    Hut on the Moon    |
|    11 Dec 21 20:10:13    |
      From: alain245@videotron.ca              You probably heard about the "Hut on the Moon" that China's Yutu 2 rover       has spotted. I don't think the hut itself is interesting but what I       don't understand is why the image provided by China is so blurry.       earthsky.org/space/mystery-hut-yutu-2-rover-far-side-of-moon-china/       The hut is supposed to be about 80 m away. At that distance a hut should       be easy to see. Maybe the thing is very small and the image in the press       releases is a blow up of a small portion of the actual image. But then       calling it a hut would be a strange name for it. If it is really very       small, calling it a die would make more sense.              Then there is also the fact that they say that it will take 2-3 lunar       days (months) for the rover to get there. That would be an average speed       of about 5 cm per hour. I know rovers can be slow, but that is a little       ridiculous.              So does anyone know at which speed Yutu 2 can roll and what resolution       its cameras have? Does anyone know that there has been some kind of       error in those news releases?                     Alain Fournier              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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