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.
I bet you’re proud of your 4th grade diploma. Except I was working out moon gravitational problems in 3rd grade.
meh... Our NASA director, Bill Nelson stated it’s too dark there to see anything on that side, hence a waste of resources.
How did that moron ever become an astronaut?
He puts the ASS in Astronaut..............
Most of the stuff they release is computer graphic, saying this is what we did.
In 1986, Nelson became the second sitting member of Congress (and the first member of the House) to travel into space. He went through NASA training with Senator Jake Garn of Utah. Nelson was a Payload Specialist on Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-61-C mission from January 12 to 18, 1986. This mission was the last successful Space Shuttle flight prior to the Challenger accident, which occurred ten days after the end of this mission. In 1988, Nelson published a book about his space flight experience entitled Mission: An American Congressman's Voyage to Space.[25]
The answer to your question is: "graft and corruption".
“ 1. It can’t easily be denied as a hoax.”
Here’s a list of retroreflectors on the moon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_retroreflectors_on_the_Moon
None from Chicomland.
Nelson is 81 years old—NASA has become cutting edge for the senile.
The head of China’s space program is almost twenty years younger:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Kejian
Nelson was an attorney and politician.
The head of the Chinese space program is an engineer with a degree in physics.
That tells you all you need to know about the two space programs.
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It’s June, silly. They’re focused on Pride Month!
Math and physics are not “wild juvenile imaginations,” and they’re the basis of what we know about astronomy.
Right and if their supposed landing is on the dark side of the moon then they don’t have to put up a reflector.
Tres convieniete.
Right? That's crazy talk.
Next they'll claim you can shoot a beam of electrons at an object and determine it's elemental makeup.
Because the obnoxious creeps who were harassing them DID NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DEMAND A SWORN OATH.
That’s why.
They deserved a punch in the face, and one of them got it.
Do you think they landed a film crew first?
Your colossal ignorance made me recoil. A bit scary, but also quite humorous.☺
Yes. Very convenient.
What are the Engineering Challenges in Returning to the Moon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YzWUcDss3g
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