China's Chang'e-4 probe soft-lands on moon's far side - Xinhua

[Oldman1]

We will see dude in the next 15 years.

Yes we will see.

Lol, another Freudian slip that US never went to the moon.

Western BS is unraveling faster than expected.

Your comprehension sucks. It says future missions to the moon. Nothing more. Not it will be the U.S.'s first mission to the moon.

Some NASA scientists said they lost the blue prints to the Apollo lander, some accidentally said "if we go to the moon in the future....", but best quote was some NASA scientists said 1960s technology was better than year 2000 technology. That's the reason they can't go back to the moon.
Now if you believe that, maybe I can sell people my stool. It cures cancer.

Who is your source? Don't just say some NASA scientists.

 

[Jlaw]

Yes we will see.



Your comprehension sucks. It says future missions to the moon. Nothing more. Not it will be the U.S.'s first mission to the moon.



Who is your source? Don't just say some NASA scientists.

I would be excited if humanity can space travel regardless of which country does it first. However I am disappointed time and time again by NASA and it's moon landing cover up. If you drove from point A to point B and the trip takes 30 hours 19 times, why you can't go back to point B on the 20th time with 2019 technology?

You can search "A funny happened on the way to the moon"

@Han Patriot

 

[oprih]

Meanwhile america is planning there second FAKE manned lunar landing. At this point, nasa should be considered as part of hollywood.

 

[Oldman1]

I would be excited if humanity can space travel regardless of which country does it first. However I am disappointed time and time again by NASA and it's moon landing cover up. If you drove from point A to point B and the trip takes 30 hours 19 times, why you can't go back to point B on the 20th time with 2019 technology?

You can search "A funny happened on the way to the moon"

@Han Patriot

You serious? A conspiracy youtube channel?

You need to do little more research before you start believing that BS. Especially the Van Allen Belts. Apollo crews didn't have to worry too much because they avoided most of the dangers of radiation and the Apollo craft was shielded enough. And the Orion spacecraft was new so they were testing it. Not saying oh its first time tech so no humans can't go through prior to that.

 

[Jlaw]

You serious? A conspiracy youtube channel?

You need to do little more research before you start believing that BS. Especially the Van Allen Belts. Apollo crews didn't have to worry too much because they avoided most of the dangers of radiation and the Apollo craft was shielded enough. And the Orion spacecraft was new so they were testing it. Not saying oh its first time tech so no humans can't go through prior to that.

No. Compelling evidence by this guy. Even NASA scientists said no human have went to the moon. Contact NASA, they said it not me.

 

[LKJ86]

The rover Yutu-2 wakes up.

 

[JSCh]

Technology 13:13, 31-Jan-2019
China's lunar lander and rover 'wake up' after two-week nap
Updated 14:51, 31-Jan-2019
By Wu Lei, Li Qian

China's Chang'e-4 lunar lander was awakened by sunlight at 20:39 BJT on Wednesday to continue its mission on the far side of the Moon.

Earlier, the rover called Yutu-2 woke up at around 20:00 BJT on Tuesday.

They were put to sleep as night fell roughly two weeks ago.

The walking route of China's lunar rover Yutu-2 on the far side surface of the Moon. /CCTV Photo

The two instruments successfully withstood the test of the extremely low-temperature environment on the far side of the Moon.

According to the change of the solar altitude, they autonomously exited the "moon night sleep mode".

The key equipment was powered on successively according to the preset procedure and passed the first lunar night safely.

Currently, the rover is located about 18 meters northwest of the lander. The two devices work normally and communicate with the ground and transmit data stably through the relay satellite Queqiao.

According to the first night's temperature detection data, the temperature on the lunar surface plunged to a minimum of minus 190 degrees Celsius during the night.

A low-temperature environment for a long time poses a severe challenge to the survival of lunar probes, while Chang 'e-4 successfully solved the problem of no illumination and low temperature by providing heat for the probe through the configuration of an isotope heat source.

A day and night on the Moon is equivalent to about 28 days on the Earth. During the first lunar-day period, the Chang 'e-4 lander and the rover successfully completed their engineering tasks, and the scientific payloads successfully started up. The landing area was ringed by the lander topography camera and a color panorama was obtained.

During the second lunar-day period, the scientific payloads will continue scientific exploration as planned.

(Cover: The lander of Chang'e-4 lunar probe (L) and the rover Yutu-2 /CNSA Photo)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1090866373876543489

 

[Dungeness]

Technology 13:13, 31-Jan-2019
China's lunar lander and rover 'wake up' after two-week nap
Updated 14:51, 31-Jan-2019
By Wu Lei, Li Qian

China's Chang'e-4 lunar lander was awakened by sunlight at 20:39 BJT on Wednesday to continue its mission on the far side of the Moon.

Earlier, the rover called Yutu-2 woke up at around 20:00 BJT on Tuesday.

They were put to sleep as night fell roughly two weeks ago.

The walking route of China's lunar rover Yutu-2 on the far side surface of the Moon. /CCTV Photo

The two instruments successfully withstood the test of the extremely low-temperature environment on the far side of the Moon.

According to the change of the solar altitude, they autonomously exited the "moon night sleep mode".

The key equipment was powered on successively according to the preset procedure and passed the first lunar night safely.

Currently, the rover is located about 18 meters northwest of the lander. The two devices work normally and communicate with the ground and transmit data stably through the relay satellite Queqiao.

According to the first night's temperature detection data, the temperature on the lunar surface plunged to a minimum of minus 190 degrees Celsius during the night.

A low-temperature environment for a long time poses a severe challenge to the survival of lunar probes, while Chang 'e-4 successfully solved the problem of no illumination and low temperature by providing heat for the probe through the configuration of an isotope heat source.

A day and night on the Moon is equivalent to about 28 days on the Earth. During the first lunar-day period, the Chang 'e-4 lander and the rover successfully completed their engineering tasks, and the scientific payloads successfully started up. The landing area was ringed by the lander topography camera and a color panorama was obtained.

During the second lunar-day period, the scientific payloads will continue scientific exploration as planned.

(Cover: The lander of Chang'e-4 lunar probe (L) and the rover Yutu-2 /CNSA Photo)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1090866373876543489

Great! I have been waiting for this new since last night! Thanks!

 

[Han Patriot]

Great! I have been waiting for this new since last night! Thanks!

The conditions on the moon are worse than mars, if the technology is proven here, we can expect smooth martian roving.

 

[Oldman1]

No. Compelling evidence by this guy. Even NASA scientists said no human have went to the moon. Contact NASA, they said it not me.

What NASA scientists? You just have a video that is being taken out of context. Thats just as bad as those idiots saying no stars in the background so that why is why the moon landing was a fake. Even the Chinese lunar rover proves that there are no stars to see in the background. In fact your Chinese rover proves the landing is real.

 

[TaiShang]

Chinese rover finds lunar nights 'colder than expected'

January 31, 2019 by Roland Jackson


The freezing night-time temperatures were recorded by the Chinese Chang'e-4 probe after it became active on Wednesday China National Space Administration (CNSA) via CNS/AFP/File


China's lunar lander has woken from a freezing fortnight-long hibernation to find night-time temperatures on the moon's dark side are colder than previously thought, the national space agency said Thursday.

The Chang'e-4 probe—named after a Chinese moon goddess—made the first ever soft landing on the far side of the moonon January 3, a major step in China's ambitions to become a space superpower.

Temperatures on the moon's surface plummeted to minus 190 degrees celsius (-310 degrees Fahrenheit) during the probe's first lunar night, which "was colder than scientists expected," the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said.

The night-time temperatures were recorded by the Chinese probe after it became active on Wednesday, following a slumber that lasted for about two earth weeks.

They were lower than those recorded by previous US missions to the near side of the moon, Zhang He, executive director of the Chang'e-4 mission, told Xinhua news agency.

"That's probably due to the difference in lunar soil composition between the two sides of the moon," he said.

A rover released from the probe—dubbed Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit) after the moon goddess's pet—also resumed operations "as planned" on January 29 and will perform experiments in the Von Karman Crater, CNSA said in a statement.

Chang'e-4 is equipped with instruments developed by scientists from Sweden, Germany and China.

It is tasked with studying the lunar environment, cosmic radiation and the interaction between solar wind and the moon's surface.

The probe will now continue with it's experiments, CNSA said.

Scientific instruments on board China's previous Chang'e-3 moon mission, sent in late 2013, have withstood over 60 lunar nights and are still in operation, Xinhua said.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-01-chinese-rover-lunar-nights-colder.html#jCp

 

[LKJ86]

 

[JSCh]

China Focus: Seed of moon's first sprout: Chinese scientists' endeavor
Source: Xinhua| 2019-02-03 11:10:41|Editor: Yamei

BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- An experiment that saw the first-ever plant sprouting on the moon last month was born in a natural disaster that devastated China's cotton-industry almost three decades ago.

Li Fuguang was one of the Chinese agricultural scientists whose years of hard work might one day help lead to a base and long-term human residence on the moon.

He was on the team that developed the cotton seeds carried to the moon by China's Chang'e-4 probe, leading to the first-ever sprout on the moon.

The seed is one of the best varieties developed by the Institute of Cotton Research (ICR) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

After making the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon on Jan. 3, China's Chang'e-4 mission pioneered the first mini biosphere experiment on the moon.

A canister on the Chang'e-4 lander contained seeds of cotton, rapeseed, potato and Arabidopsis, as well as fruit fly eggs and some yeast, to form a simple mini biosphere.

Images from the probe showed that only a cotton sprout was growing.

Although the sprout couldn't survive the extremely cold lunar night, Li, head of ICR, believed it could help acquire knowledge for building a base and long-term residence on the moon.

The cotton seeds were selected for the experiment because of their outstanding performance on Earth.

The seeds belong to a transgenic insect-resistant cotton variety developed in China and named CCRI 41, said Li.

China suffered its worst ever cotton bollworm infestation in 1992. In one county, the bollworms captured in one day weighed over a tonne.

The disaster reduced the yield of most of the cotton fields by more than half.

Within three years, the cotton planting area in China fell from 100 million mu (about 6.67 million hectares) to 60 million mu (4 million hectares).

The economic losses nationwide exceeded 40 billion yuan (about 5.9 billion U.S. dollars).

Transgenic insect-resistant cottons developed by foreign scientists gained more than 90 percent of the market share in China by the end of last century.

In 2002, Chinese scientists successfully bred CCRI 41, the first transgenic insect-resistant cotton variety with independent intellectual property rights, breaking the hold of imported cotton varieties.

The market share of domestic insect-resistant cotton varieties increased from 5 percent in 1999 to 98 percent in 2012.

The plantation of the insect-resistant cottons not only controlled the spread of bollworm, but also reduced the use of pesticides by 70 percent to 80 percent in China, said Li.

Based on CCRI 41, Chinese scientists have bred more than 100 new cotton varieties.

 

[JSCh]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1092305517924491264

Yutu 2 reported to have enter its noon nap again after travelling a bit further. Wake up time is reported to be 8th Feb.

 

[JSCh]

林晓弈
2月3日 21:54 来自 微博 weibo.com
我国载人月球任务？
China manned moon mission?