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On August 23, 2023, India announced that Luna III successfully made a soft landing on the south pole of the moon, becoming the fourth country besides the Soviet Union, the United States and China to successfully complete this mission.
Compared with the global attention of major scientific research achievements, India's moon landing has unexpectedly raised many questions. Although India is a space power and ranks first in the world in terms of exploration capabilities in outer space, some "doubts" in the entire moon landing process have still become places of doubt for netizens around the world.
Even the photos of the moon landing released by the Indian Space Research Organization a few days ago were hastily deleted after being faked down.
Is India really fake?
1. Spooky animation
Speaking of this counterfeiting storm, the first thing to bear the brunt of is the animated short film that appeared in the video of the live broadcast of the landing stage of India's "Luna 3".
Many people are puzzled by this, since the lunar rover is equipped with a shooting device, which can also transmit images and videos to the earth during the entire moon setting, why replace it with animation effects when landing?
You know, the lunar rover landing has attracted the attention of people and relevant institutions around the world. In addition to us ordinary netizens, there are countless experts, scholars and professional institutions who are also carefully watching the live broadcast process.
If India wants to use this cartoon to hide from the sky, it is too much to pay attention to so many experts in the world. In fact, after this live broadcast, NASA, the European Space Agency and many other relevant authorities have reported the news of the successful landing of India's Luna 3 on the moon.
It can be seen that the use of animation does not seem to be inappropriate.
So why not use real images instead of animations? It turns out that this is a precedent in the login process, and it is more prudent to execute the plan.
In fact, a few years ago, in the live broadcast of the return of the continental Chang'e-5 lunar sample, animation effects were also used instead of videos in the final landing stage.
If India is suspected of fakes based on this alone, then isn't it our own Chang'e-5 that has also become a fake?
The animation used during the landing is not a fixed video work made in advance in our traditional concept, but an animated demonstration of the real-time attitude of the spacecraft.
In other words, although what you see is animated, every action in it is still live. This animation is called "telemetry animation" in the space field.
So, what are the benefits of replacing real video footage with telemetry animation?
In the process of landing a spacecraft, due to the possibility of various risks and accidents, it is important to prioritize the transmission of relevant data. The real image and video will occupy more data transmission space, so replacing it with animation effects has become a stable solution to ensure the data transmission of the detector to the greatest extent.
In some other space activities, even if telemetry animation is not used to replace real images, the real-time picture will be framed. So many times, the video we see in outer space is card-by-card, not because the network speed is slow, but because more data transmission space is given priority to more important data transmission.
From this point of view, it is not advisable to judge Indian counterfeiting based on animation effects alone.
2. Long wait
In addition to the animation, the image transmission after the landing of India's Luna 3 was too late, which has also become the basis for many netizens to suspect that India is fake.
You know, after China's first lunar rover landed, pictures and videos on the moon were transmitted back in only a dozen hours, while India took a full thirty hours.
But some netizens retorted that ten hours and thirty hours are not much different in nature. On the contrary, if you prepare fake videos in advance to transmit them back faster, what about waiting thirty hours?
In fact, the reason why India's rover video was transmitted late is mainly because its design life is too low, only 14 days.
In these 14 days, the lunar rover has to complete many scientific research tasks, and a large amount of data needs to be transmitted in time. Therefore, in order to allow the most critical data to be transmitted back to the earth in the first time, the work of video pictures for publicity can only be slightly postponed.
Similar to the problem of remote sensing animation, the long waiting time also takes into account the priority of data transmission.
This still cannot be a basis for suspicion of India's fraud.
3. Weird picture
This picture is regarded by many netizens as a "real hammer" for India's moon landing fraud.
According to our life experience, it is a natural law that shadows form under the sunlight. But there must be a blurry circle around the shadow, and there will not be a particularly strong junction between light and dark.
As in the sketch painting, there are bright parts, dark parts, and gray areas between light and dark. The photos of India do not show any "gray areas" at all.
As a result, some netizens suspected that India had built a scene similar to the surface of the moon in advance, and the light source was just a strong light on the side.
Such doubts are reasonable, but netizens still forget one important thing, that is, there is no atmosphere on the moon.
On Earth, the sun is a direct light source, but the sun is scattered in the atmosphere, so the light that really reaches the ground comes from all directions. It is precisely because of this that the shadows on the earth do not have a very strong chiaroscuro.
On the moon, the sun as the only light source has a similar effect to the strong light speculated by netizens, which makes the shadow of the lunar rover look very strange.
Of course, some netizens raised other doubts, such as the strange reversal of the shadow, the wrong traces of dirt pressed by the lunar rover... However, according to the author's investigation, these suspicions are either chasing the wind or can be reasonably explained, and there is no empirical evidence that India's moon landing is fraudulent.
So why exactly did India delete the photos it posted?
The author believes that no matter what reason India deletes the photo, it cannot change the fact that the photo has been widely circulated. But if we cannot find hard evidence of India's fraud in the available information, then we cannot condemn India's fraud.
As for why India deleted the photos, it may be clear to them only in their own hearts.
Epilogue:
Although India is usually arrogant and blindly confident in the international community, it has left many people with the impression that India is exaggerating. But it has to be said that India does have two brushes in the aerospace sector.
Although there is still some distance compared to the mainland, it is still in the leading position in the world.
Therefore, after analyzing many doubts, the author believes that the success of India's moon landing should be certain. But we don't have to worry, China has always been committed to the development of the aerospace industry.
While congratulating India on its achievements, I sincerely hope that the mainland's space industry will get better and better!