File talk:Moon landing sites.svg

Source specification

Cmglee , Peter Freiman, could you please provide a precise source?
-If you picked the file from the internet - please provide a specific URL.
-If you digitized it yourself, then please state so and therefore please specify the book you took as source, e.g. giving the ISBN number. If possible add pagenumber.
-If you made a diagram yourself - please provide your Template or data-source
-If there is a sourcecode used in generation, it is highly appreciated to provide it.
Thanks in advance. --Itu (talk) 08:02, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

If I remember correctly, I copied the locations by eye from File:Moon_landing_map.jpg from http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/moon_landing_map.jpg . Cheers, cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ 14:59, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Apollo 16/Surveyer 6

I think the positions of Apollo 16 and Surveyer 6 are switched! Anyone care to comment or correct? Nsae Comp (talk) 01:33, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

@Nsae Comp: thanks – well spotted! I've fixed it, and added Chang'e, too. Cheers, cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ 06:58, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Chandrayaan-3

@Cmglee: As Chandrayaan-3 has performed a successful landing near lunar south pole, I request you to update the map. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs) 08:31, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

I'll do it later today. Meanwhile, could someone please help me identify where on the moon's photo the south pole landing site is? Thanks, cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ 08:27, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

P.S. It's difficult to identify a point on the moon's limb due to severe distortion in the 2D projection. Would you be able to find some references that point to it in a photograph as seen from Earth similar to the one in the SVG? http://reuters.com/graphics/INDIA-SPACE/zjvqjxbnxpx/graphic.jpg is the best I've found. cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ 09:15, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

I've asked on en:Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science#Location_of_Chandrayaan-3_on_File:Moon_landing_sites.svg.

 Done cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ 23:16, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

Recent soft landings

There has been a spate of landings, especially in the last year. If we keep adding them to the diagram, it will soon get too crowded.

Should moon landings become routine events, should we have a cutoff date, perhaps discarding Chang'e 3 and later, as there was a 37-year gap before the current era?

Otherwise, can someone please propose an alternative solution?

Thanks, cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ 13:25, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Luna 20 landing date

It should be 25 February not 21st. Even says so on its Wikipedia page

Edit: nvm, my mistake, read the wrong date SANSbura xD (talk) 17:15, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

The diagram is correct.

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1972-007A

states

On 21 February 1972, Luna 20 soft landed on the Moon...

You might be referring to

It landed in the Soviet Union on 25 February 1972.

on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_20 cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ 03:22, 26 February 2024 (UTC)