India's Chandrayaan 2 Reveals Highest Resolution Images Of The Moon From Orbit

[@aritrabiswas7827]

I live in India and I've had the opportunity to meet some scientists from ISRO. Really friendly people, even the chairman was nice enough to hang around with us schoolkids for quite a long time. They work so hard but for whatever reason don't show off the results of their work. Hopefully in the future we'll get better communication from them.

[@shigekax]

Older space agencies probably get a lot just from experience

[@slinkerdeer]

They don't show most of their work because they aren't allowed to due to the anomalous things populating the moons surface

[@Maxdubi]

It’s just *CHAIR* now. Can’t have man at the end.

[@AeroCraftAviation]

@@Maxdubi Chairperson? No can't have "son"...Chairhuman? No can't have "man"...Chairpeople? No must be singular...Chairbeing. Perfection.

[@5Andysalive]

They are probably not the people who decide that.

[@StevenAndrews]

It was a crater...until you told me it could be a mountain.

[@GregMcCarthyUK]

I can't unsee it now. Its always a mountain

[@richardupcott9026]

Then it became a chamelon eye.

[@rcknbob1]

"First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is" -- Donovan

[@thiesenf]

Goes to show that the brain reaally can't differentiate what it is being fed by our senses...

[@flszen]

It was a mountain for me and stayed that way after he said it was a crater.

[@benjaminsmith4058]

For fun I did some quick Fourier analysis on the Chandrayaan 2 images vs. the LROC images. The analysis confirmed that the max resolution of the LROC camera is 1.0 m, which is the same value published by NASA. The Chandrayaan 2 OHR images have a resolution of at least 0.45 m. I say at least because the optical resolution was higher than the pixel resolution, so we can't measure the full optical resolution, but can say with certainty that it is at least 2x better than LROC. That said, the Chandrayaan 2 OHR images also show a classic signature of a small amount of motion blur in the vertical direction. Fortunately, if measured carefully, the motion blur artifact can be deconvolved from the original image, producing an image without motion blur. My guess is this is something they are working on right now. One other thing I noticed is that the pixel values (i.e. dynamic range) of the Chandrayaan 2 OHR images is around 10x higher than in the LROC images.

[@akashmazumder8235]

Dayum... What field of work are you in bro?

[@WetaMantis]

I suppose they can't track terrain and stabilise the image to keep it still during frame capture?

[@callsign_Elysium]

Legend

[@bearseatbeets2498]

Bruh this is a hell lot of technical jargon😂, anyways you seem to be a master of your art. Keep going👍

[@ashupatil9098]

@@akashmazumder8235 lol

[@canis9178]

My grandfather built his own telescope and would be amazed by these lunar images. He gave me my lifetime love of astronomy and I know he’d be a subscriber to your channel if he was still living.

[@DSX1]

@ᴡɪɴᴛᴇʀᴍᴜᴛᴇ _ no space agency will ever send you on a mission to die, your life will put theme in debt, and it’s also a crime, even if you consent. : )

[@mk1cortinatony395]

9@@DSX1 theyve done it with soldiers for over 150 years (or more) why stop now ? lol

[@DonLee1980]

bless your grandfather.

[@Ellexis]

Sounds like a great man! Hopefully he wasn’t one of the deceased that “voted” for Biden.

[@DSX1]

@ᴡɪɴᴛᴇʀᴍᴜᴛᴇ _ you know, I see a lot of ideas like yours on the internet recently. You haven't thought this through, only thinking of "this is cool" not "what happens after". Of course you are not alone in this, the internet has been trying to act very philosophical lately, but think about this. If I gave you the chance to be in a place on Earth undiscovered by civilization- a barren wasteland - you would call me crazy (although you may answer differently since this is the internet) because why would I send you to an unlivable terrain all alone with no food? You cannot colonize mars on your own. So if you want a one way trip, your gonna be going with others to colonize.

[@chrisc1140]

"a crater with a depressed object in the middle" how did they get a picture of me on the moon?

[@jdh2024]

I can see why you'd be depressed, stuck in a crater on the moon!

[@Shogoeu]

That's a mountain. You were standing on a mountain.

[@bradbrown8759]

Lmao😂 "A crater with a depressed object in the middle." That's the story of my life. 🙊

[@AttilaTheHun333333]

that’s deep

[@multitimmytiger2]

"a crater with a depressed object in the middle" aka "me in the middle of my life".

[@SauerlandSlackliner]

These Images are amazing, i love just looking at them ...

[@shieldmate7444]

You could even print it and make a huge detailed wallpaper with this resolution.

[@Declan-pg8cg]

@keith moore It can be used anywhere. You don't have to be in Pakistan.

[@General12th]

@keith moore Also, these aren't pictures of Pakistan. They're pictures of the Moon. :)

[@Ron4885]

Me too. Should do the same thinking with Pluto, Io, Europa and Cyliene.

[@falxonPSN]

@@shieldmate7444 Ooooh! I could feel like I'm living on the moon! I like it!

[@mjproebstle]

i haven’t seen craters of that resolution since i last looked at my face in the mirror

[@hennemmc5021]

Self roast those are rare

[@RobRoschewsk]

r/roastme

[@sudiptaranjanpatra1876]

Lol😂😂

[@AeroSpaced296]

😂😂lol

[@DeathValleyDazed]

Lunar dust allergic reaction = acne vulgaris as I prepare to crater with zit popping thumbs down. 👎

[@deborahduthie4519]

That does look like a perfect square etched onto the surface at the very beginning. There’s is certainly archeology up there. One crater grows deeper in the middle with straight lines showing the steepness of the 3photo crater. Brilliant stuff India.

[@John.0z]

That is remarkable resolution, and an amazing recording process. Thank you Scott, and happy new year.

[@virajkhairnar369]

I think you should thank ISRO

[@micaiaskauss]

3:14 "HD, which is 1920 pickles across"

[@Touay.]

Thanks to modern technology, we now know the moon isn't made of cheese, it is made of pickles. ...... who could have predicted that!

[@Nuffsed81]

I'm pickle Rick...

[@albclean]

🤣

[@override7486]

FullPickle standard, very defined, smallest picture element in raster image. 1920p (pickles)!! Not some 720p or even worse 720i for babies. In fact, it looks like batteries made using pickles are better than any Li-Ion or even graphen batteries in development.

[@jeffnewcomb601]

@@override7486 19,200 pickles. ^^ I suppose we could call the FullPickle Standard a "plot."

[@PrajjalakChattopadhyay]

Some of my seniors from department of astronomy & astrophysics work on this. They've much more data, which isn't in the public domain (to the best of my knowledge). (I'm a grad student in the department of high energy physics)

[@nikolatasev4948]

This comment needs to go higher!

[@RocketGyan]

so does it have more clearer images?

[@prateekgupta5945]

Isn't that ironic that ISRO had students as spectators in the mission control during the launch, which was a campaign to get youth excited about space and the same agency is not even disclosing any information with regards to the reason for the failure the lander. The more people know, the more they think about something which I believe is a better way to get inspired and involved, rather than participating in some quiz. If they open all the telemetry and sensor data they received along with the what they know happened to the public, people like Scott would have made videos about it which again inspires more people and at least some of them may look at the data themselves. Keeping such a secrecy makes us worst than China.

[@PrajjalakChattopadhyay]

@@RocketGyan I don't have access. I'm from a different department.

[@PrajjalakChattopadhyay]

@@prateekgupta5945 That's government policy. I can't do anything. Yeah it's like China, but that's what our BS government is upto. From farmer suicide to ISRO missions - No data! I know I'm going political, but that's what it is!!

[@LangstonJordan]

It wasn't a failure. Just a rapid unscheduled impactor mission.

[@TimLF]

R U I M does not quite have the same level of understatement, or role off the tongue in the same way. Maybe RUS (rapid unscheduled sprawl).

[@callsign_Elysium]

That would be funny as long as thats not the actual official statement

[@justusgoll9731]

They wanted to try a moon intercept Mission to prepare for a possible asteroid intercept mission.

[@callsign_Elysium]

@Sabir wut?

[@savageking3948]

@Sabir yes they're but smartest of em all

[@paulbugnacki7107]

Thanks for taking the time to put those images together. It didn’t sound easy. Incredibly sharp images.

[@AlexanderBatyr]

7:42 ...this is a crater with a depressed object in the middle... - Yeah, absolutely, nice crater! 7:45 ...unless you got your eyes reversed and it looks like a mountain coming up! - WTF, I don't see crater anymore, my eyes are reversed now. What did you just do to me?

[@ufo2go]

Look the other way! 👀

[@tomboyd7109]

Delaying data from expensive time consuming experiments is pretty common practice in academia. You can't blame them for favoring their own PhD theses and other research papers. Go India!

[@ashokiimc]

Love ya all the way from India Scott.

[@FandersonUfo]

ISRO is world class sir - well done India

[@wcjgibbs3945]

Isro is the most underrated space agency in my opinion, love from Britain mate.

[@joelmano103]

Love from India🇮🇳. I’ll never forget that depressing night, when the lander and rover were crashed onto the moon’s surface just the minutes before landing, while descending from orbiter. But feeling a little relief by seeing this amazing work from the orbiter. Waiting for the Chandrayaan 3 mission, which consists a lander and a rover.

[@TheZoltan-42]

When you said at the three-phase picture that "depending how you look at it", I consciously "inverted" my view, but I did not see a high mountain... I saw a black&white picture of a chameleon inspecting its surroundings. And musing on its menu: "Hm... fly good... fly safe..."

[@enjibkk6850]

😆

[@Zonkotron]

@Sabir Yeah, and ?

[@charliepark1122]

Good to see our foreign aid spent wisely.

[@Dylans_astro]

We neeeeeeeed to see the Apollo landing sites through this!

[@chriskennedy2846]

Good luck with that.

[@headcrab4090]

@@chriskennedy2846 Why is that? The LRO has pictures of the landing sites.

[@chriskennedy2846]

​@@headcrab4090 you can't really tell what anything is. Just a bunch of arrows telling you where the flag is etc., I would actually like to see much higher resolution at closer to horizontal angle. Kind of strange that with all of the money NASA has blown since the 1960s a justifiable spend would have been a 50th anniversary unmanned rover landing that would send back photos/video of such a historic location. It could have been combined with a mineral / Helium-3 study to further justify cost. I'm not saying the whole thing is a hoax and if you force me to choose a side I would say we probably did go and land but I know how capable the Gov't is of telling monstrous lies (JFK, Gulf of Tonkin, 1st gulf war - babies removed from incubators by Iraqi soldiers, 2nd gulf war -weapons of mass destruction....) so I am keeping an open mind.

[@michaelkoncal7622]

First they must exist!!!!!

[@blablabla1185]

Ask Buzz Aldrin where they are on the moon! Probably you will get a fun answer.

[@whattha_huh]

You could use a Starship as a 50m measuring tool.

[@simongeard4824]

Only a 9m measuring tool, unless the rocket has tipped over on landing... and SpaceX aims for a somewhat higher standard than KSP players...

[@dotancohen]

@@simongeard4824 Maybe a StarShip _during_ landing. They're tipped over at that point (yes, I know, no atmosphere on the moon, it was a joke).

[@simongeard4824]

@@dotancohen they're presumably horizontal for the deorbit burn though, so yeah, if you know the altitude, you could use it...

[@Andrew-13579]

The Lunar Starship standing up and casting an accurate, simulated shadow on the surface. 😃

[@PlumSack79]

You could also have mentioned Muskwit at every opportunity like a deranged fanboy.

[@Thepher6]

It just takes a while to photoshop out all the aliens and Bezos' moon base

[@tirathfaldu]

😂😂😂😂 what about Elon Musk base and ship

[@fryede03]

@ᴡɪɴᴛᴇʀᴍᴜᴛᴇ _ Or is it round? We only see one side of it! JK

[@ububox2087]

@keith moore 5G that shit keith!

[@tma2001]

yeah I saw a documentary about that starring Shia LaBeouf :)

[@gthakur17]

Bezos is Martian btw

[@TechGorilla1987]

Thank goodness you "learned to code." We appreciate it!

[@davidinvenio3094]

Well he HAD to write his own code since the size of some of those craters was "fractal". I'm a little surprised that there are comments about that. The stuff about jpg bombing out was another bit of hilarity. (software engineer, so yeah getting a kick)

[@debayanDas]

I had the chance to attend the launch of Chandrayaan-2 last year. Had to scrape together a last minute plan to make it to the launch at Sriharikota on-time, but it was totally worth it! The sonic wave from the rocket has to be felt in person to truly appreciate it. Stayed up to watch the landing attempt ofc, but hard luck. Hope Chandrayaan-3 will ace it 🤞🏻

[@SPEARHEADGLOBAL]

and it did

[@nethascotx24]

Am from India, I’m so proud how much ISRO has evolved from moving parts on bicycle to the VAB to international recognition and surpassing!

[@stargazer7644]

It's too bad they're as transparent as a mud puddle.

[@singleplaya0]

Thats all great, but when will we get street view?

[@moosemaimer]

There is a streetview of sorts for the Apollo missions, in Google Earth.

[@davros_adl8155]

2024 if Artemis holds its schedule?

[@ignorasmus]

Presumably after the streets have been bilt.

[@kartikpathak629]

Send google to moon.

[@RCAvhstape]

The Apollo rovers had camera masts on them, but they weren't omnidirectional like the google cams.

[@5Andysalive]

Makes you appreciate Nasa, Esa Jaxa and others. And how they (have to) operate and what they add to science for everybody. Besides it's just NOT embarassing to crash when trying to land a space probe. It just happens. To everybody. What is embrassing is that cringy comedy show that happened afterwards. That has damaged the image of Indias space program a LOT more than the crash itself. Frankly, you just look better if you're open about it. Like Israel was.

[@chedagoz7145]

What happened afterwards? not Indian myself.

[@motokid6008]

Yeah what do you mean by " cringy comedy show"? Was there something in India that made fun of the mission?

[@ignorasmus]

As an avid science and astronomy enthusiast from India, I totally agree with you. Just like SN8, the Chandrayan 2 mission was really something to be proud of - despite the landing failures. It is sad that pointless, needless, nationalistic chest thumping has become the primary activity in India since last 6-8 years. It is even messing up with the covid vaccine situation where an "Indian vaccine" needs to be approved and rolled out before any of the "western" ones. There are concerns being raised about the thoroughness of the Indian vaccines due to this hurried implementation.

[@5Andysalive]

@@ignorasmus I can not possibly judge from halfway around the world. But even here it is noticed that the current rulers seem to fancy the idea of a dictatorship and coming down hard on democraty and various minorities. When this makes the news in Europe it has to be quite noticable.

[@neithere]

@@ignorasmus as a Russian... let me hug you and cry together

[@coreys2686]

4:23 the left image is Chandrayaan. There's a few extra craters on that side.

[@bgbthabun627]

@Corey S, well spotted! it took me a while to see that. -_-

[@DeathValleyDazed]

Scott, your technical skills and analysis are so much appreciated. Thanks for translating space stuff into “understandable” for an average dude like me!

[@mybluemars]

Thank you Scott for your hard work and great explanations! I love push-broom imaging techniques that come in huge data sets such as this 94K by 12K.

[@RCAvhstape]

I want to see images of the crash sites where the Saturn stages and LM ascent modules impacted.

[@srinitaaigaura]

There's a video of it. One amateur astronomer worked very hard to find out where they could have crashed. There's a doubt though that Apollo 11 LM might still be in orbit.

[@noahgoodwin-rice6049]

I'd love to see those crater perspective shots in a side-by-side orientation that's more conducive for viewing as a stereogram

[@jonnymoka]

Thanks for the awesome work! Can’t wait to hear and see about more space science! If you always fly safe we will never advance! But it’s ok to wish us safe flying:) have fun Scott! Thank you! I am so excited I can’t quit yelling!

[@amirsafari7140]

We want apollo pics for those who believe landing on moon was fake

[@ENTERtheCREATOR]

It wouldn't matter. Conspiracy theorists will always claim any evidence against their theory is faked. Pictures? Photoshopped. Video? CGI. Eye-witness accounts? Clearly they've been paid off. The only thing that would convince conspiracy theorists that we landed on the moon, the Earth is a spherical planet, there are no aliens in Area 51, etc. is them being present. They would need to be in a space shuttle themselves, observing the lunar landing sight, the spherical Earth, etc., etc...

[@TheMrCougarful]

Photoshop is still a thing.

[@macdjord]

Won't help. There've been plenty before - even ones where you could see the trails left by the astronauts (not individual foot prints, but distinct lines of disturbed terrain) - but to a conspiracy theorist, there are only two kinds of evidence: evidence that supports their theory, and evidence that the conspiracy _goes deeper than they ever imagined._

[@nerobernardino88]

@@ENTERtheCREATOR Also, they would need to be exposed to actual space or else they would claim it was just monitors in the windows.

[@ENTERtheCREATOR]

@@nerobernardino88 Ha! I have to admit, though, that would be some very efficient problem-solving.

[@kurunthalingamm897]

Thanks for reviewing our one of the moon mission. Proud to be an Indian.

[@jamesstenhouse4113]

I am hoping that they get some new images of the Apollo mission sites. Great work once again Scott. Cheers from Canada l*l

[@erikb8979]

Good job India. Keep up the good work. From USA

[@Kualinar]

Those images are awesome. My guess is that the first few months where mostly used to calibrate the camera and learn how to effectively use it.

[@felipewozniak]

It is so nice to see one more country launching important space programs. Diversity and competition are important.

[@steamsuhonen9529]

I appreciate you had a lot of trouble producing this video, but I still think it should have been in 4K resolution... ;-)

[@danieltaylor5231]

They left the anti-scratch film on the lens.

[@captainTubes]

Tardigrades playing pinochle on the gyro again.

[@vishaldwdi]

Fantastic Longtime subscriber Love from India.

[@nondimensional4977]

Interesting distribution. What is the explanation for the boulder clusters at 8:18 and 8:45 toward the end of the video?

[@odysseusrex5908]

Alien Feng Shui.

[@dim_dub_insect8193]

At 9:33 what is that dark area? Is that shadow of crater? But it doesn't look like crater. Looks like some mineral deposit but definitely a change in color of lunar soil there

[@mikerichards6065]

It’s a shame India hasn’t released much data from this and their Mars orbiter - they’re both incredibly impressive achievements, so I hope their reticence isn’t down to any sense of embarrassment because something has gone wrong.

[@GyanTvAmit]

isro want all date to remain top secret, India's mars mission last long than expected,sorry for bad english

[@alantasman8273]

India is in solidarity with the international space community in keeping secret the structures that have been found on planets and moons throughout our solar system. Go to 6:44 and check out both larger craters for an example of what I mean.

[@ttruth1822]

Why should release ?? 😂. Lets keep secret first, else american will do copyright claim 😂

[@scottbreseke716]

Above Top Secret group needs time to get India to edit out the things we're not supposed to see.

[@11moonshot]

Thank you so much of your ingenious work with the data! And for sharing your thoughts with us! True!! I'd also like very much to see - after some 50 years - the landing sites of the Apollos! Hopefully someone of the Chandrayaan team takes a peek at your channel!!! (But there are good chances they do... because this is one of the very best space-related channels in the world!!) Mike, Germany

[@scottmanley]

There are 0.5 meter photos of Apollo sites www.lroc.asu.edu/featured_sites/

[@olasek7972]

the landing sites of Apollo’s have been available in good resolution from LRO spacecraft for years now ...

[@DeputyNordburg]

@@scottmanley The Chandrayaan team released photos of the Apollo 11 & 12 sites in late 2021. It would be great to see a video about that.

[@jasperkennis8499]

You’re always hinting on how you programmed all kinds of cool things you show in your videos. I know it’s somewhat off topic but could you do a video more about your career and the kind of skills you use to do these things? Pleeeease!? Okay thanks!

[@alzandermuller]

At 3:58, the split comparison gives a very subtle parallax that lets you see the depth in 3d when you look at it cross eyed. It's not perfect, but it will give you a sense of how tall those hills are. Same thing for 7:14, if you tilt your phone and go cross eyed, you can see the depth of that crater. Very neat!

[@plupkination]

Pretty capable cameras they have there! Hopefully they will do more structured sets of images, and release a lot more pics in the future.. One thing he mentions with the three pics of the crater at different angles, is the tendency of your eyes to get "reversed", where you see what is actually a crater, as a mountain instead.. THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS TO ME ALL THE TIME WITH SPACE IMAGES, AND IT DRIVES ME CRAZY! loll! It generally happens more with high resolution, monochrome images, but it seems to happen quite a bit for me regardless of the image type! Is there a name for this phenomenon? I find myself often trying to 'reset' my eyesight to see the image properly, and sometimes it can take quite awhile.. I have found it helps to look at one thing in the image, and try to re-focus properly, as opposed to looking all around and hoping things will 'pop' back to their correct orientation.. I would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this odd visual phenomenon, what its called, and what you may have discovered to either prevent it from happening, or to get your eyes to see the images properly!

[@shivamanand3686]

Yeah ...I have seen this common phenomenon in my child hood when I visited a science centre nearby ...it's called hollow face illusion I guess ...

[@Sololop]

I think a lot of people need to update their prescription. The left side was noticibly sharper. No question.

[@MrHichammohsen1]

Saw your tweet early and was waiting for this to drop! Fly safe guys.

[@subhranshukashyap5877]

Hey Scott, you will be happy to know that India is again going to moon in 2021 with new chandrayaan-3 which only contains a Rover which will make you to study more data........Respect to you from India😊

[@scottmanley]

Posted before you watched the whole video right?

[@subhranshukashyap5877]

Yup

[@subhranshukashyap5877]

Atleast you replied me for the first time in 6 years😊

[@DhruvPatel-qp3ww]

Lander this year (Chandrayaan 3)

[@heitorasf]

We waited for decades for high res images like that. Great o/

[@Forest_Fifer]

They've taken more photos, they just haven't had time to download them from the moon yet...

[@justinmcginty6815]

Good show India. Great science. From Australia

[@MrZerlex]

7:37 If you put two Pictures Side by side and cross your eyes till both pictures overlap, you can make out the 3 Dimention. Similer to Those magic Hologram picture books. Cheers Edit: (Left Pic; Cone Middle) (Right Pic; Cone Left) this will display correctly

[@GauravSharma-dy8xv]

Lol I watch 3D movies with this technique 😂

[@MrZerlex]

@@GauravSharma-dy8xv and you're not crosseyed? 🥴 😂

[@GauravSharma-dy8xv]

@@MrZerlex Obviously I never watch full 3D movies, I love my eyes😂 It hurts after 5-6 minutes. So few scenes only at a time.

[@Angrymuscles]

There's no shame in failure. Disappointment yes, but not shame. Sending hardware to the Moon is an exclusive club, it's something to be quite proud of. I'm pleased and thrilled to see them do what they've done in the pursuit of science, and I look forward to further such endeavors in the future.

[@MysteryScoop]

3:55 there is definitely an artificial object in that small crater, middle of the screen...

[@GeorgeTsiros]

94e3 x 12e3 pixels means... eh... approx. 100e3 x 10e3 = 1000e6 = 1e9 so 1 billion pixels and considering we're talking about computers, it will either use 3 or 4 bytes per pixel so to keep it uncompressed in memory, you'd have to allocate a 3 or 4 GB contiguous chunk of memory. That, in itself, is straightforward for 64 bit systems (and probably even 32bit systems with PAE but icba to investigate)... the problem however is that you can't expect the graphics card to accept that kind of texture image. Common maximum sizes are around 8000 for each dimension. Even if they supported 10 times that, it would still not be enough. The only practical solution is keep the data compressed and display only uncompressed sections. This to be done efficiently, requires the data to be in a specific compressed format. I am confident there are programs out there created for this exact purpose. Hell, even my calculator has one...

[@RogerGarrett]

Thank you, Scott. It would b great, with all your imaging expertise, if you could chop those huge unwieldy files into smaller, more manageable, sizes so that lots of people could down load them and view them with their not-so-capable imaging programs.

[@newworld6190]

top space agency of 2020 1. NASA 2. ISRO 3.Roscosmos 4.European Space Agency 5.Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

[@yangshujian]

Who made such ranking? You?

[@newworld6190]

@@yangshujian no surendra modi of india.

[@yangshujian]

@@newworld6190 Link? 😂

[@icegiant1000]

You did some coding? GOOD MAN! (I'm a software developer myself, and have worked with oceans of different file formats, both image and 3d, it certainly can get overwhelming!)

[@General12th]

Software development is Mr. Manley's day job.

[@viveknayak9899]

He works at Apple, buddy

[@divyanshukumar8557]

Congrats...u just got highest number of views ever by adding word 'India' in video name

[@scottmanley]

This is my worst performing video in weeks.

[@kunjukunjunil1481]

@@scottmanley 😂😂

[@kunjukunjunil1481]

@@scottmanley But you only had two videos in this week😂. Joke aside , space X is the magnet on KZbin when it comes to sci-tech channel viewership .

[@VolkasSur]

When are we getting Hi res images of the Apollo landing sites?

[@kartikpathak629]

Let's wait.

[@my3dviews]

In 1969. LOL They were standing on the moon when they took high resolution photos. Now people want photos of the same site from orbit.

[@navdeepsengh]

LRO did a great job too so far in mapping the entire surface. It's imagery is however magnitudes lower than what CY-2 can do.

[@olasek7972]

Can do? Clearly it can’t do if it isn’t doing it, results so far are pitiful

[@BlackHawkTejas]

@@olasek7972 Images in not released to public doesn't mean the camera is not capable. They are keeping thr high quality, highly detailed images with them for now. Guess jumping the gun is your speciality!

[@olasek7972]

@@BlackHawkTejas no comrade, I don’t believe for a second in this nonsense that they are on purpose not releasing those images. If you want believe in this crap - it is a free country.

[@BlackHawkTejas]

@@olasek7972 Then comrade you have very little knowledge about India & ISRO. You can take your crap somewhere else. You haven't backed your claims. Maybe you can fix your NS first!

[@olasek7972]

@@BlackHawkTejas your “knowledge” is laughable, yeah, if you find someone gullible enough to believe you - good luck.👍

[@Veptis]

Hope that Google earth (kinda ironic I guess), adds this data. Which is a great tool to explore the moon at high resolution and even get the surface panoramas etc.

[@argh1989]

Check out Space Engine, although I think it's no longer free but maybe you can find an old version.

[@Snailmailtrucker]

F Google !

[@Veptis]

@@Snailmailtrucker if you as friend of Google, why are you on KZbin?

[@shipofthesun]

4:37 At standard zoom, very hard to tell. But when you push in, the righthand image starts fuzzing up noticeably. It's all about the pixels, baby. 8:37 I would pay good money for a large format framed photo of an Apollo site. The LM is our best flying machine to date.

[@osiversen]

Orbit to ground images is always nice, but I wish there was a lot of ground level photos

[@deepaks8430]

LRO orbit: 50km Chandrayaan-2 orbit: 100km It does have a better camera but the mission objectives are different as chandrayaan-2 has many more instruments collecting data, camera was mainly used for identifying proper landing spot.

[@badjebediah4756]

I was having a perfectly normal day looking at craters... and then you said it looked like a mountain and I can't unsee it now.

[@ArmandSharp]

another advantage of using before and aft cameras is that a "Stereoscopic" image can be utilised in your average Google cardboard or VR headset (though that can also be created using the "pulfrich phenomenon" using images from a single video cam).

[@TechMasterRus]

- "Why so little data?" - "They are drawing Apollo landing sites right now" )))

[@nikhilchandra2293]

“They point to applo landing site but can't find anything so USA asked ISRO not to release any data or...!! Hence very little data.” Good theory to feed my lunar sceptic friends 😂

[@angelarch5352]

Well... the USA better hurry up with some secret launches to dump a bunch of that garbage onto the moon surface quick to save face. Just say that the "Moon storms" hit the Apollo landing sites which explains why all the landers and junk is knocked over and strewn about randomly... :)

[@odysseusrex5908]

Don't give "them" any ideas.

[@johanneszwilling]

Thumbs up for the effort!

[@SwedePlaysGames]

7:40 Me too crater, me too...

[@JohnJ469]

Okay, stupid question. Why is it that we had spy sats in the 70s that could read a news headline in Red Square and yet 50 years later we still have crap resolution pictures of the Moon?

[@scottmanley]

1) That claim was overblown\ 2) The best Spy satellites weighed over 10 tons, which is hard to deliver to the moon, so we send smaller spacecraft with smaller cameras.

[@JohnJ469]

@@scottmanley I'm sure it was overblown. A larger craft with a larger camera will of course be a harder delivery but what's the point in sending several smaller craft to do a mediocre job instead of a larger craft and do the job properly? The Apollo CSM and Lander weighed just over 24 tons, so we're talking less than half of that. The Falcon Heavy is rated for 26 tonnes to GTO or 16 tonnes to Mars. So current tech could easily send a 10 ton spy sat to the Moon. I'm wondering why they don't.

[@Jenny-CR]

John, my guess is they already have one in orbit. We wont see any real hi-res photos tho. There are obvious structures in the apollo film photos. Someone was mining the moon maybe still are. We wont see the good images until declassification.

[@JohnJ469]

@@Jenny-CR Yes, I've seen some of those photos myself. In the 80s there was a book "Someone is on our Moon" or "Mining our Moon", something like that. The photos were impressive. I can certainly accept that some "tracks" we see on the Moon are simply rocks rolling down slopes, it's when they go up hills and then disappear that I have questions. We can also ask what happened to Surveyor 4. The, and I'm quoting from an article at the time, "...instantaneous nature of the shutoff and absence of signal attenuation..." makes it a bit of a mystery. The only way I can think of that would cause such a thing to happen during a descent burn at 40,000 ft up is for the vehicle to hit something.

[@Jenny-CR]

@@JohnJ469 That's a good point about Survayor, I've always thought it hit something. Also moon lights are very interesting. They're a real phenomenon and it's just left as a mystery, nothing to see here right lol. I think far to many people are nieave and extremely arrogant. Like we are the first advanced species and civilization in this 4 to 5 billion year old solar system, seriously give me a break lol!

[@spaceflightnerd]

6:15 that crater looks like so weird lmao it feels like its infinitely deep

[@Релёкс84]

That's because the hole you think you're seeing is just the very sharp shadow of the right edge of the crater. The crater's bottom is actually relatively level but the shadow gives the illusion it abruptly drops.

[@spaceflightnerd]

@@Релёкс84 I know

[@randomplantsandstuff]

That's an optical illusion. That is not a crater but a MOUNTAIN!

[@xlynx9]

Have you never been outside an atmosphere, Earther?

[@spaceflightnerd]

@@xlynx9 No, also I live on Mars

[@photon3264]

Thank you for including about India..

[@moehudson001]

Scott, I loved the scale you put on the image. It certainly gives perspective on features what we have no day-to-day interaction with. However, what would really drive the relative sizes would be a reference to known objects.....so, for example....where you have 200m..put a superimposed football field. Or where further out...put a known city for reference or a known lake. I mean...the Osirus mission...it would be nice to see a car parked in the area where the debris was taken from. I could then really relate the sizes. Or, for example, images of the moon surface taken by the astronauts in the 70s where we see a mountain far away....put a few ghost landmarks for size along to the horizon (maybe the Eiffel tower at a few locations.) I love your vids...the perfect amount of info. Maybe you can make a video focused on relative feature sizes compared to known everyday objects and explain why it's so hard for our minds to visualize them correctly? everything from a closeup of asteroids, to features on Pluto, to sunspots, to Moon landings, Mars horizon pictures....etc.

[@mostlywanderer]

From what I know now, they have made a 3D map (Satellite image + topographic) of the moon with the data from this orbiter and are using it for the current Chandrayan 3 mission. I don't know if the data is public yet or not.

[@janzahradka]

Those side by side images create amazing 3D view of the surface! despite taken from different spacecrafts in different time. Perfectly aligned and synced, Scott 👏. (I am viewing it on my phone by naked eyes adjusting my sight that left eye looks at the left image and right eye at the right one, cheap and instant but need some practice:-)

[@pankajsaikia1986]

After reading your comment I also watched that part in 3D with my nacked eye by adjusting the focus, and man that's look amazing.

[@hellelujahh]

Wow! You put a lot of work into this, it's really impressive!

[@cost-pluscontent2371]

>takes the best photos of craters >becomes one coincidence?

[@fifagamer1857]

you are what you photograph

[@fifagamer1857]

@@spaceflightnerd haha what?

[@spaceflightnerd]

@@fifagamer1857 nvm i am dumb

[@RealHogweed]

"to understand the crater, you have to be the crater"

[@angelarch5352]

"When you stare into the crater, the crater stares back at you!"

[@bradbrown8759]

Beautiful. Nice work India. If your gonna do it... Do it big.

[@TropicalGardenGuy]

Wow thats clear!, except 50 years ago we could have used a microscope on the moon! Now thats close up!

[@Emophiliac2]

Except you would have to jump up when you take the photo, to meet the criteria.

[@my3dviews]

@@Emophiliac2 Huh? Why would you have to jump up?

[@Emophiliac2]

@@my3dviews It is highest resolution images of the Moon From Orbit. If you're on the ground, then you're not in orbit.

[@my3dviews]

@@Emophiliac2 Okay, but if the criteria is that you have to be in orbit, then jumping up wouldn't satisfy the criteria either. You need enough horizontal velocity to make orbit as well.

[@xdcam]

Scott, just a note on your audio on this video, it’s very loud and a little over over modulated. Great images and great work.

[@dlmickelsen]

Resolution is a "quarter of a meter" sounds like metric need a new unit 25cm = 1 manley

[@override7486]

LOL. Just now I noticed how weird (and idiotic) it sounds. Let's use metric... but not quite.

[@kjzwaagstra]

I am going to use this unit in my profession of engineering henceforth.

[@Forest_Fifer]

So 10 inches is pretty Manley?

[@PlumSack79]

A humble guy

[@richardaitkenhead]

Great content again, thank scott.

[@RobertEmery]

Pretty amazing images! On a side note, yt close captioning cannot handle Scott's accent *at* *all!* ... but omg is it funny to read

[@TeVolt805]

KZbin seems to think the original language is VIETNAMESE! It usually get is right and does a lot better than it has this time.

[@sparker599]

haha, yes. 9:13: your dad is just replacement for android 10:53 Quantum astronautic Encore Need for Speed

[@PlumSack79]

No voice activated program can a handle Scottish accent, it's a real issue, I was trapped in a voice activated lift for 2 fucking days. I lost my fucking voice asking it to open the fucking door. Turns out I'd entered a broom closet by mistake.

[@PlumSack79]

I learnt alot about myself over those two days, turns out I have a fettish for old janitor gentlemen. Because when he rescued me I turned his mop bucket over, sat on it and sucked him off to show my gratitude..

[@dextermorgan1]

They couldn't show the rest of the HD pics from the moon because nobody is ready to have the conversation about what's up there. 🤷‍♂️

[@philipwells2793]

I don't think India is going to reveal SHADO's moonbase, hence the lack of imagery.

[@dt8129]

Space agency didn't even reveal failure report on Vikram lander. They have started testing Vikram-2 lander as well but never revealed any progress. That's more secretive than Chinese space agency tbh

[@Sathish_12]

@@dt8129 somebody hacked the rover or it malfuctioned becaz later images revealed the rover is found a few kilometers away from the original landing positions

[@zero1zero184]

Sadly Philip, these people have no clue.. S.I.D:- UFO detected, Sector Green, speed SOL 7. "Red Alert, Red Alert" Interceptors immediate launch!

[@prateekgupta5945]

@@Sathish_12 hacked..? That's some serious bollywood bullshit. Hacking into such a system is only possible via radio and link is next to impossible. First of all, program for landing is mostly autonomous on such probes, which is again hard-coded in the flight control software which takes data from onboard sensors, and acts as governed by those hard coded instructions. If manual intervention are at all allowed, one has to know what frequency is used to connect with the probe. Even if you get that info, another challenge is the commands that the probe would respond to which in turn requires thorough knowledge of the onboard software. Again, even if you get that, you can't broadcast anything without being detected. If you've looked the live simulation which they were showing during the webcast, it shows that the probe rotated rather abruptly, which in this case is only possible if there is a problem with the sensors, most probably IMU, or data corruption due to radiation or some rookie mistake in the hard-coded landing program. Whatever it was, ISRO is never disclosing it but it was definitely not a "hacking".

[@HelmutBemboka]

@Scott - I'm assuming the vertical line in the left half of the image around 6:45 is an image artifact (rather than a fence line on the Moon)?

[@boazeilander3617]

Still can't believe that Scott has the same Interests as me. Space and synthesizers.

[@DonSolaris]

I just spot Behringer 303. Anything else he has?

[@scottmanley]

I have a Volca Modular and a bunch of Pocket Operators as well as a ton of Soft Synths.

[@boazeilander3617]

@@scottmanley the pocket operators are pure fun, i have 2 myself.

[@DonSolaris]

@@scottmanley Nice and modern! I just have old junk: Jupiter 8, Prophet 5, OB-X, Xpander, MiniMoog, SH-5, Emulator II+ and many many others.

[@omdesigned]

Check out the wierd crater at 10:13, about mid-frame, directly above the 1km tic. High albedo and very odd looking ‘debris’

[@kylecramer8489]

Zoom! Enhance!

[@L1ft0ff]

Jesus Christ it's Scott Manley

[@igorblade8819]

Great work again👍 Thanks a lot 💚🍻🍀

[@CsendesMark]

Hey @Scott 5:23 try to run topaz sharpen ai on it

[@ghostrider-be9ek]

what is the height of the 2 objects shown at 2:12 - 2:14?

[@sproctor1958]

Only Vietnamese Closed Caption? ...sorry...i just can't...

[@kartikpathak629]

Yeah. I also got fooled.

[@I2yantheGreat]

good job india!! love from usa

[@Killbayne]

Imagine a Moon Orbiter that orbits at less than a kilometer..

[@erikz1337]

It would probably crash pretty fast since the moons gravity is uneven

[@spaceflightnerd]

Wouldn't last very long, would it?

[@Formula1st]

I’m sure we could think of a way to get science out of a ‘how low can you go’ challenge

[@diesistkeinname795]

A better camera would be more reasonable. Longer focal length, larger aperture and better sensor configuration etc.

[@FrikInCasualMode]

It would need a very capable station keeping propulsion system to stay in such orbit for long.