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The moment of landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dim8elzo5vE

When I look at this, it seems it's a long-range optical feed of the moon surface with lander graphics laid over it. Has anyone found footage of the actual craft touching down? It would be amazing to see.

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Hopefully they can leave behind a camera to film the next arrivals.

On the dark side of the moon?

Not sure if you're joking.. but there's light on the dark side of the Moon, it's just called that because it's never visible from Earth.

I assumed the craft that brought the lander into orbit would have some sort of visual tracking, but maybe the distances involved make that impossible and all we get is telemetry + a rendering to visualize it.

I was thinking more about a recorder positioned on earth or on orbit, but I forgot about the main stage of the ship that deploys the probe and should have visibility of the dark side.

I am hoping that the lander has some ultra high definition video but because of bandwidth we haven't seen it yet but as soon as the upload to earth is complete I am hoping we get a much higher resolution video of this landing.

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