Wu explained that the substances brought back by China's Chang'e 5 probe have helped scientists to determine there still were volcanic activities on the moon's near side about 2 billion years ago, and materials from the far side would allow them to verify the hypothesis that volcanoes on the...
Wu explained that the substances brought back by China's Chang'e 5 probe have helped scientists to determine there still were volcanic activities on the moon's near side about 2 billion years ago, and materials from the far side would allow them to verify the hypothesis that volcanoes on the...
surface is presumed to cause the craters. If the reported lower incidence of craters on the Moon's far side is real and not a result of inadequate photographic resolution, it may be readily explained by the effect of the Earth's gravitation field on meteoric material orbiting about the Sun....
People on Earth can only ever see one lunar face because the moon takes about the same amount of time to rotate once as it does to complete a single orbit of Earth. As a result, scientists divide the moon into two hemispheres, namely the side that always faces us, known as the near ...
Back then, most scientists assumed the far side of the Moon, which they would never have been able to see, was more or less like the near side. However, because the Moon is relatively close to the Earth,onlyabout 380,000 km (236,000 mi) away, the Moon was the first Solar Sy...
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 far side of the moon was once a vast magma ocean, Chinese lunar lander confirms Meet 'Tansuo' and 'Wangyu,' China's next moon rover and astronaut spacesuit (video) Lunar laser: China makes 1st daytime laser-ranging measurement from Earth to the moon ...
(Queqiao is also gathering astronomy data, using an instrument of its own called the Netherlands-China Low-Frequency Explorer.) [China's Moon Missions Explained (Infographic)] An artist's illustration of China's Chang'e 4 lander on the far side of the moon. The mission touched down on Jan...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, Chinese scientists reported Wednesday.
“And one thing that has always kind of lingered in the back of my mind is whether that only applies to the Apollo area of the moon,” Carlson added. Lunar samples from the Chang'e-6 mission could help explain differences between the near and far side of the moon. ...