It’s such a harsh message to propagate, though. A lot of these smaller countries have been really pushing their space programs, and they don’t need “LOL, lander upside-down” memes to accent their recent failure any further.
At this rate, Japan may be able to actually land on the moon in a few more years, take some great pictures, and shove Mashable’s “space photo of the decade” quote directly up their ass. Where it belongs.
Why would that lead to shoving a quote anywhere? Much of the marvel of this photo is the unusual circumstances around it.
We’ve already got photos of the moon.
This, afaik, is the first photo we have a lander that suffered a significant complication in the landing but was still able to deploy a rover to take a picture.
“The lander was at most 10 meters off its mark, according to space agency officials, which is comparable to 11 yards or less.” Lol
Are we adding yards to clarify the distance for the benefit of American football players?
As an American, I need this in hamberders in order to understand, don’t give me none of that commie metric system crap.
/jk
how much is that in sqrt(football field)? i’m lost.
TIL that Takara Tomy (the company that made the Transformers toys) designed the Transformable Lunar Robot LEV-2, aka Sora-Q (“sky sphere”):
