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in reply to Swapna Krishna

Oh - that's what I originally thought when I heard the control room react to the landing data.

But then they suddenly said it was upright... I guess it's leaning/lying down after all.

And again... why do we still land anything on anything without a bunch of cheap cameras pointing straight down.

in reply to David P

@pewnack I was going to say, didn't this just happen to Japan's lander? Is the moon inhabited by probe-tipping punks?

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in reply to Swapna Krishna

Someone asked Flight Dynamics shortly after landing whether the slight roll before they lost contact with the craft was significant. It looks like it was!
in reply to Swapna Krishna

You know all that money we spend on our kids LEGO models?

It all makes sense now.

in reply to Swapna Krishna

I really shouldn't laugh - but it's very much reminding me of my first Munar landing in Kerbal Space Program.

(With the added complication that the little green guy needed to launch back into space again afterwards...)

#space

in reply to Swapna Krishna

The front fell off? youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=3H44hc…
in reply to Swapna Krishna

every battlebot has a self righting mechanism. They didn't think of this?