Friday, 4 January 2019

On January 3, the Chinese Chang’e-4 spacecraft made the first successful landing on the Moon’s farside.

On January 3, the Chinese Chang’e-4 spacecraft made the first successful landing on the Moon’s farside. Taken by a camera on board the lander, this image is from the landing site inside Von Karman crater. It shows the desksized, six-wheeled Yutu 2 (Jade…
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3 comments:

  1. Bodhipaksa5 January 2019 at 04:37

    If the ramp had been closer to that mini crater directly ahead it looks like they would have been in trouble.

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  2. Corina Marinescu5 January 2019 at 11:21

    I still have doubts about this mission. Doubts regarding longevity and altered data. Anyways, I hope will be a success.

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  3. G. Thomas Edwards8 January 2019 at 16:16

    Fortunate that it is really the Far Side of the Moon and not the Dark Side of the moon, or those deployed solar panels would not be of much use.

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