The lander module from India's moon mission was located on the lunar surface on Sunday, one day after it lost contact with the space station, and efforts are underway to try to establish contact with it, the head of the nation's space agency said.
The Press Trust of India news agency cited Indian Space and Research Organization chairman K. Sivan as saying cameras from the moon mission's orbiter had located the lander. "It must have been a hard landing," PTI quoted Sivan as saying.
[...] The space agency said it lost touch with the Vikram lunar lander on Saturday as it made its final approach to the moon's south pole to deploy a rover to search for signs of water.
A successful landing would have made India just the fourth country to land a vessel on the lunar surface, and only the third to operate a robotic rover there.
The space agency said Saturday that the lander's descent was normal until 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the lunar surface.
Previously: Chandrayaan-2: India's Vikram Lander Presumed to Have Crashed
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday September 09 2019, @06:40PM (3 children)
Are you kidding me? This one is like 20 pages of text, and there's a second page after this.
Not to mention the writing style is enough to give you a massive headache trying to read it.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @06:53PM (2 children)
I do agree that Hoagland is a crackpot. All you have to do is watch one of his presentations where he plays with lunar photos in photoshop until image artifacts show up to see that.
However, I disagree that you can dismiss all the claims of anomalous (relative to Newtonian/Eisensteinian physics) gravitational forces that people have reported.
http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/van90/ExplorerSatellites_LudwigOct2004.pdf [uiowa.edu]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allais_effect [wikipedia.org]
https://brucedepalma.com/ [brucedepalma.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday September 09 2019, @07:39PM (1 child)
Oh, I'm sure there are still plenty of things our science still has wrong/doesn't know about astronomy. I just question this guy's assertion that NASA does know, and is purposely covering up science because...some sort of conspiracy theory that Russia is in on as well. And is somehow still a secret with not one but two separate national governments involved.
And a lot of astronomy, it's not actually that hard for a random scientist with access to the right sort of telescope to make readings of whatever-it-is himself.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @07:51PM
There are plenty of reports of anomolous readings. They all get dismissed as "dark matter".