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Feb. 27, 2020
China's Chang'e 4 lander and "Yutu 2" lunar rover passed the 14-day extreme low temperature test again, ending the "sleep" on the moon night at 6:57 on February 18 and 17:55 on February 17, respectively, successfully exposed to light Wake up on your own and enter the fifteenth day work period. At present, it is confirmed that the equipment is in good condition and the working conditions are normal. The lunar rover will move northwest and then southwest, and synchronously drive and detect at the new target point. The fifteenth day of the work will be carried out as planned. At present, the "Yutu No. 2" lunar rover has accumulated 367.25 meters on the moon.
At present with corona virus, the epidemic prevention and control work has entered a period of tough work. The exploration of the moon and the aerospace engineering center adhere to both epidemic prevention and control and business work. This year, China's first Mars exploration mission, Chang'e 5 lunar sampling return mission and other major engineering tasks will be implemented one after the other, and the follow-up of major special engineering tasks will be critical stage. The more special the period, the more we cannot relax; the harder and harder we are, the more we need to shine. We will work together with the people of the country to fully carry forward the spirit of exploring the moon, work together to overcome the difficulties, and win the overall victory of the epidemic blockade and major aerospace engineering tasks.
Yutu-2 reveals the Moon’s farside shallow subsurface structure
Video above: China’s Chang’e-4 mission on the far side of the Moon returned observations made by the Lunar Penetrating Radar onboard the Yutu-2 rover. Chang’e-4 landed in the Von Karman Crater, located in the Aitken Basin, in the South Pole region on the far side of the Moon, on 3 January 2019, at 02:26 UTC (10:26 Beijing time). Chang’e-4’s landing site was named Statio Tianhe. Video Credits: The Moon’s farside shallow subsurface structure unveiled by Chang’E-4 Lunar Penetrating Radar Chunlai Li, Yan Su, Elena Pettinelli, Shuguo Xing1, Chunyu Ding, Jianjun Liu, Xin Ren, Sebastian E. Lauro, Francesco Soldovieri, Xingguo Zeng, Xingye Gao, Wangli Chen, Shun Dai, Dawei Liu, Guangliang Zhang, Wei Zuo, Weibin Wen, Zhoubin Zhang, Xiaoxia Zhang and Hongbo Zhang
Science Advances, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay6898/China Central Television (CCTV)/SciNews.
CNSA Press Release: http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n6759533/c6808880/content.html
China National Space Administration (CNSA): http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/
Images, Video (mentioned), Text, Credits: CNSA/CLEP/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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