China's Chang'e 4 moon lander on the far side of the moon took this panoramic view of its surroundings in Von Karman crater, showing its rover Yutu-2 nearby. The China National Space Agency unveiled the image on Jan. 10, 2019. (Image credit: CNSA) China made history earlier this ...
China's Yutu 2 rover, as seen by the Chang'e 4 lander on the far side of the moon. (Image credit: CNSA) China's far-side moon mission has turned its history-making gaze underground. The Chang'e 4 spacecraft touched down on the floor of the 115-mile-wide (186 kilometers) Von ...
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The first opportunity to take photos of Earth and Moon were on 3 February, on which a command was sent to take another timelapse. The first image from this timelapse was downloaded with the Dwingeloo telescope on February 4, 2019. For the first time, it the entire Moon and Earth are in...
The first robot rover to land on the Moon in nearly 40 years, China's Jade Rabbit, has begun sending back photos, with shots of its lunar lander. Jade Rabb... B News - 《Asia Pacific Physics Newsletter》 被引量: 1发表: 2014年 ...
Chang'e 4 and its rover, Yutu 2 (Jade Rabbit 2), woke from dormant, power-saving modes at the end of January and beamed back data suggesting that temperatures there hadplummetedto minus 310 F (minus 190 C), according to an Agence France-Pressereport. [Photos from the Moon's Far Side...
LANZHOU, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have successfully conducted an in situ measurement of lunar dust at the landing site of the country's Chang'e-3 probe. Using a temperature-controlled sticky quartz crystal microbalance onboard the Chang'e-3 lander, researchers from the Lanzhou...
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A small green shoot is growing on the moon in an out-of-this-world first after a cotton seed germinated on board a Chinese lunar lander, scientists said Tuesday. The sprout has emerged from a lattice-like structure inside a canister since the Chang'e-4 lander set down earlier this month...
The record-setting Chang’e-4 mission might have spotted minerals that would reveal long-held secrets about the moon's origins.