Post by syzygy on Jan 7, 2019 7:19:31 GMT
it is some recent, but all forthcoming news on this robot-vehicle shall be posted here.
Yutu 2 on the Farside
Image Credit: Chinese National Space Administration
Explanation: 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 desk-sized, six-wheeled Yutu 2 (Jade Rabbit 2) rover as it rolled down lander ramps and across the surface near local sunrise and the start of the two week long lunar day. Ripe for exploration, Von Karman crater itself is 186 kilometers in diameter. It lies within the Moon's old and deep South Pole-Aitken impact basin with some of the most ancient and least understood lunar terrains. To bridge communications from the normally hidden hemisphere of the Moon, China launched a relay satellite, Queqiao, in May of 2018 in to an orbit beyond the lunar farside.more from source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190105.html
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special delight for me, that it landed in a crater that was named after Kármán Tódor, hungarian scientist.
Theodore von Kármán was the PhD advisor of Qian Xuesen, the founder of the Chinese space program.
please anyone who knows more accurate position of the site, fix my placemark attached!
Yutu 2.kmz (867 B)
Yutu 2 on the Farside
Image Credit: Chinese National Space Administration
Explanation: 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 desk-sized, six-wheeled Yutu 2 (Jade Rabbit 2) rover as it rolled down lander ramps and across the surface near local sunrise and the start of the two week long lunar day. Ripe for exploration, Von Karman crater itself is 186 kilometers in diameter. It lies within the Moon's old and deep South Pole-Aitken impact basin with some of the most ancient and least understood lunar terrains. To bridge communications from the normally hidden hemisphere of the Moon, China launched a relay satellite, Queqiao, in May of 2018 in to an orbit beyond the lunar farside.
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special delight for me, that it landed in a crater that was named after Kármán Tódor, hungarian scientist.
Theodore von Kármán was the PhD advisor of Qian Xuesen, the founder of the Chinese space program.
please anyone who knows more accurate position of the site, fix my placemark attached!
Yutu 2.kmz (867 B)