Posted on 06/07/2024 8:10:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
Technical personnel work at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing, on Sunday. China's Chang'e 6 touched down on the far side of the moon and will collect samples from the surface. Photo by Jin Liwang/EPA-EFE June 2 (UPI) -- After a month-long journey, a Chinese spacecraft has landed on the far side of the moon, the China National Space Administration said.
Chinese space administration officials have said they intend to collect rock and soil from this notoriously difficult-to-reach region of the lunar surface for the first time in history, the CNSA said.
"Everyone is very excited that we might get a look at these rocks no-one has ever seen before," Professor John Pernet-Fisher, who specializes in lunar geology at the University of Manchester, told the BBC.
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"Applause erupted at the Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center" when the Chang'e landing craft touched down on the Moon early on Sunday morning, the Chinese state broadcaster said.
Chinese space scientists landed the Chang'e 6 craft in a crater known as the Apollo Basin. "The choice was made for the Apollo Basin's potential value of scientific exploration, as well as the conditions of the landing area, including communication and telemetry conditions and the flatness of the terrain," said Huang Hao, a space expert from the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.
Huang said rugged terrain on the far side of the moon makes it harder to navigate than the front, or near, side, and has fewer flat surfaces that lend themselves to a successful landing. It also reduces the windows to communicate with the uncrewed craft.
The craft hovered about 300 feet above the moon's surface, scanning it with 3D technology before landing. Chinese space officials called the touchdown an "historic moment."
Chang'e 6 will now begin a three-day exploration of the lunar surface, gathering material as part of a mission that the CNSA said would include "many engineering innovations, high risks and great difficulty."
Most prominently, the Chang'e 6 will seek to extract some of the oldest known rocks to exist on the lunar south pole.
Pernet-Fisher said the chance to analyze rocks and other objects from a completely different part of the moon could answer fundamental questions about how planets form.
Most of the rocks collected so far are volcanic, similar to what we might find in Iceland or Hawaii, he said. But the material on the far side would have a different chemistry.
"It would help us answer those really big questions, like how are planets formed, why do crusts form, what is the origin of water in the solar system?" Pernet-Fisher said.
China is the only country to have ever landed a module on the back side of the moon, having done so the first time with its Chang'e 4 spacecraft in 2019.
this stuff is such a joke. they cant predict the weather tomorrow, but can tell you what planet was boinking who when the other wasnt looking that are billions of light years away, yet we have no idea how planets are formed or where water came from unless we look on the back side of the moon. so the front side was a waste of time. and yet, even though we have never been there, we just know what its going to tell us. so we know what we are going to discover before we discover it! yeah okay, whatever.
Maybe they want to build and stock a base to store and launch Nukes that would be out of sight of any probes and virtually undestroyable.
anyone who has worked in gov for any length of time or any freeper for that matter, still thinks that an alphabet soup federal agency put a man on the moon 55 years ago is smoking something real good.
What difference does it make which side of the moon they landed on?
The near side is about 225,000 miles away - so they went a half a percent farther…what’s the big deal?
Hahahahahah too late!
You started your rant with an obviously false premise, the rest of it is just ignorant gibberish.
The far side (it’s not the ‘Dark’ Side) is relatively unexplored.
Being the side facing away from Earth, it is way more heavily pock-marked by meteor craters................
Agree with your post—but folks want to belieeeeeve....
Good luck talking them out of it.
“It would help us answer those really big questions, like how are planets formed, why do crusts form, what is the origin of water in the solar system, where to put China’s first military base on the Moon?” Pernet-Fisher said
There’s no dark side of the moon, really. As a matter of fact, it’s all dark.
Why am I suddenly very worried?
/Hidden Chinese space base launch platform
238,000 miles away? Wouldn’t the Chinese pose more of a threat at 350 miles? Which is the highest we’ve gone?
You were wise to phrase that as a question. Here's your answer: NO. 350 miles is NOT the highest we've gone. We (well, 21 of us) have been to the Moon.
But you already knew that.
Who's paying you to post your nonsense?
A good place for China to be. Did they all go? /s (This shouldn’t be necessary!)
lol,
So they say. 🙄
you seriously believe in all this astronomy stuff? like do they really ever sit back and think about all this ludricous stuff about billions of light years and what planets are made out of and when they were made all from looking at a light? That is gibberish, calling me ignorant doesnt make wild juvenille imaginations real.
Please describe to me what general shape you believe Earth to be.
Why would we be interested about what lies on the other side of a ball of blue cheese?
Mold???
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