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Sped up footage from Chang'e 6 lander descent (media.mas.to)

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Sped up footage from Chang'e 6 lander descent

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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Yup. There are no human-scale objects as a reference.

There are a few landers, yes, but if you tried to use them to gauge distance to the surface, they're so small that by the time you pick them out, it's probably too late to decelerate properly.

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