BEIJING, June 2 (Xinhua) -- The lander-ascender combination of China's Chang'e-6 probe successfully landed at the designated landing area in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon Sunday morning to collect lunar samples, the China National Space Administration announced. ■...
2024 shows the lander-ascender combination of Chang'e-6 probe landing on the far side of the moon. China's Chang'e-6 touched down on the far side of the moon on Sunday morning, and will collect samples from this rarely explored terrain for the first time in human history, the ...
China’s first Moon lander, Chang’e-3, taken by Yutu-1 rover during 2013 nearside exploration.Credit: CNSA/CLEP “From the video, we can see more dust was thrown up when the Chang’e-4 touched down on the farside of the Moon compared with the landing of Chang’e-3, indicating that...
Chang'e-6 consists of an orbiter, a returner, a lander and an ascender. Since its launch May 3 this year, it has gone through various stages such as Earth-moon transfer, near-moon braking, lunar orbiting and ...
China's Chang'e 4 mission will soon make a historic touchdown on the far side of the moon. Chang'e 4, which consists of a stationary lander and a mobile rover, is expected to land sometime in the first few days of January. The mission totes six kinds of scientific payloads. The ...
That probe, the Chang'e-4, and its robot rover are still functioning, transmitting to Earth via an orbiter that passes over the moon's far side. Meanwhile, China's first moon lander, the Chang'e-3, is also still transmitting. China is excluded from the International ...
Humanity just planted its flag on the far side of the moon. China's robotic Chang'e 4 mission touched down on the floor of the 115-mile-wide (186 kilometers) Von Kármán Crater Wednesday night (Jan. 2), pulling off the first-ever soft landing on the mysterious lunar far side. ...
China's Chang'e-4 probe successfully landed on the far side of the Moon at 10:26 a.m. BJT Thursday. This is the first ever soft-landing on this previously uncharted area. The dark side is never visible from the earth due to a phenomenon called tidal locking. But the probe sent back...
China's latest lunar probe, the Chang'e-4, is expected to land on the far side of the Moon on the second half this year in what is to be the first soft landing on the dark side of the moon in the history of space flight, said Zhao Xiaojin, head of the China Aerospace Science ...
The probe will spend two days on the far side of the moon, and 14 hours to collect moon soil samples, Xinhua reported. To complete its mission, the lander will need to robotically stow those samples in an ascent vehicle that made the landing with it. ...