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China says moon pictures not
faked from NASA
Reuters
Monday December 3, 2007
China has dismissed Internet gossip that its first
photo of the moon taken from a lunar orbiter might have been plagiarised
from NASA, local media said on Monday.
The country launched its first lunar probe, the Chang'e 1, in
October and released a photo featuring a patch of grey moon surface
splotched with craters last week, hailing the mission as a "complete
success".
But some Chinese Internet users have questioned its originality
after comparing it with an almost identical lunar image from the
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 2005.
"There is absolutely no forgery," Ouyang Ziyuan, chief
scientist for the lunar probe, told the Beijing News.
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The Chinese and U.S. lunar images looked similar only because
they had aimed at the same area of the moon's southern hemisphere,
Ouyang was quoted as saying.
"But a careful examination will tell some small differences,"
Ouyang said.
There were two craters on a certain spot of the Chinese photo,
but there was only one on that same spot of the American picture,
the Beijing News quoted him as saying.
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