piątek, 25 sierpnia 2023 o 10:55:51 UTC+2 Alan Folmsbee napisał(a):
On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 8:40:08 AM UTC-4, Enes Richard wrote:
środa, 23 sierpnia 2023 o 14:28:16 UTC+2 Alan Folmsbee napisał(a):
India Moon shot is in final braking rocket fire https://www.isro.gov.in/LIVE_telecast_of_Soft_landing.html
Powered descent rocket burn is in progress
The estimated landing time is expected to be 6:04 PM IST.
8:34 AM, Aug 23 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
President Modi is watching from BRICS meeting in South Africa
I hope that the Indians know about the shift of the Moon's center of mass relative to the geometric center by about 2 km towards the Earth.
This has a significant effect on gravity and was the cause of many
initial failures for both American and Russian...
Here are 2 videos of the Moon landing from an on-board camera from India. One video is 2 minutes as it passes craters and slows to touch down, hovering.
The second video shows the little car going down a ramp to the lunal surface.
https://www.gadgets360.com/chandrayaan/news/chandryaan-3-pragyan-rover-video-isro-moon-landing-lunar-surface-vikram-lander-4328422
Maybe next year we'll see people too.
Expeditions can be profitable due to the very valuable Helium3, which is abundant in the lunar soil,
even up to 2 m deep (and maybe even more).
It was probably squeezed in there during the formation of the Moon...
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