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中文

CNSA via Reuters / Xinhua

A detail from China’s Chang’e lunar orbiter shows cratered terrain on the moon. A yellow circle has been added to highlight craters that show evidence of botched photo retouching.

Some dogged sleuthing by a fellow space blogger has tracked down the truth behind the controversial first photo from China’s moon orbiter.

In the week since the picture was released amid much fanfare in Beijing, there have been widespread rumors that the photo was a fake, copied from an old picture collected by a U.S. space probe.

The good news for the Chinese is that Planetary Society blogger Emily Lakdawalla’s clears them of outright fakery. The bad news is, she found evidence that the photo was badly retouched for public release.

Lakdawalla’s explanation would be embarrassing for Beijing, but it makes the most sense as the solution to this week’s moon photo mystery.

Lakdawalla began her investigation by plowing through databases of lunar imagery and dredging up a U.S.-produced picture for comparison. It’s not a NASA picture, as reported by the rumor mill. Instead, it’s one of the tens of thousands of pictures taken by the Pentagon’s Clementine lunar mapping orbiter back in 1994.

The photo from China’s Chang’e 1 orbiter is clearly a higher-resolution view, with sunlight streaming from the northwest rather than the north.

"So the notion that China faked their lunar photo can be put to rest. (What is it about the moon and conspiracy theories, anyway?)," Lakdawalla wrote. "At least it certainly isn’t a copy of the Clementine image; and it’s certainly not a Lunar Orbiter image, either."

Case closed? Not quite.

Lakdawalla found that a mistake was apparently made in stitching together the 19 strips of imagery to produce the finished picture - and that Chinese officials unknowingly pointed out that mistake as they defended the photo’s veracity.

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Thanks to my Chinese teacher, I’ve discovered 三毛 (Sān máo).
三毛 seems to be as famous in China as Tintin (丁丁) is in the rest of the world.
What a shame, I didn’t know him!!!

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English

PanImages是新的搜寻计划计划出来从华盛顿州大学。它允许使用者搜寻图片通过本国的语言，和接受更多结果比以传统查寻。

今天，数据分析在图片旁边引导搜寻图片。比如说，搜寻“flowers"在Google回答11.4百万结果，但是如果你只说西班牙语，搜寻“flores"就回答2.2百万结果。

搜寻机械慢慢地开始允许跨语言搜索，为了归还更多的结果为人不会说普通的语言。Google就运用是二个多语言和它不允许跨语言搜索。

比较，PanImages，支撑三百多语言。使用者写问题和选择他的语言，然后可以看结果包括翻译在Google Image和Flickr。
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中文

When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed.

At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world’s only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and deter any intruders.

That is the theory. Or, rather, was the theory.

Uninvited guest: A Chinese Song Class submarine, like the one that surfaced by the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk

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