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Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by btbuildem on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:14AM (#37236256)
The moment of landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dim8elzo5vE

When I look at this, it seems it's a long-range optical feed of the moon surface with lander graphics laid over it. Has anyone found footage of the actual craft touching down? It would be amazing to see.

Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by kimbler on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:18AM (#37236326)
Hopefully they can leave behind a camera to film the next arrivals.
Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by haolez on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:17AM (#37236296)
On the dark side of the moon?
Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by btbuildem on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:29AM (#37237602)
Not sure if you're joking.. but there's light on the dark side of the Moon, it's just called that because it's never visible from Earth.

I assumed the craft that brought the lander into orbit would have some sort of visual tracking, but maybe the distances involved make that impossible and all we get is telemetry + a rendering to visualize it.

Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by haolez on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:54AM (#37237982)
I was thinking more about a recorder positioned on earth or on orbit, but I forgot about the main stage of the ship that deploys the probe and should have visibility of the dark side.
Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing by 14 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @01:39PM (#37239505)
I am hoping that the lander has some ultra high definition video but because of bandwidth we haven't seen it yet but as soon as the upload to earth is complete I am hoping we get a much higher resolution video of this landing.