Chang'e 3: Lunar Day 3 and onwards, Ongoing discussion of the Rover/Lander mission |
Chang'e 3: Lunar Day 3 and onwards, Ongoing discussion of the Rover/Lander mission |
Feb 11 2014, 10:10 AM
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The China Space facebook page reports the lander has awaken (Link).
I haven't heard anything about the rover. -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Mar 18 2014, 04:28 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10193 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Revisiting the interpretation of Yutu tracks seen by LRO... this is a blow-up of the LRO image with the tracks and stops shown at LPSC. Red dots are stops between drives and blue dots are the sites of the main science activities.
The map shown at LPSC ended before Yutu drove to its final location as revealed by LRO, but not much before, as you can see. There may be some small improvements to come, as I have seen reprojected images which fine-tune the route in the south, but basically this can be taken as nearly the final word on the route. I will put together a more complete map later in the route map section. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Mar 20 2014, 12:33 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 18-July 05 Member No.: 439 |
The map shown at LPSC ended before Yutu drove to its final location as revealed by LRO, but not much before, as you can see. Nice to see the LRO tracks confirmed. Meanwhile, in the long article http://www.chinanews.com/mil/2014/03-19/5969485.shtml they say that due to the unspecified failure some or all of the three conditions for Yutu night mode were not met before the second lunar night: QUOTE 故障尚未解决,第二个月夜却要到来。当初,科研人员对月球车正常情况下进入月夜的姿态有三个设计:一是车头朝南,二是车身的左右侧倾斜在负二度到正一度之间,三是太阳翼和桅杆要收拢。“玉兔”生病后,三个条件都无法满足。 Failure is not resolved, the second Moon night has to come. At first, researchers under normal circumstances rover attitude into the moon night with three designs: first, front facing south; second, the left and right side of the body tilt between minus two degrees to plus one; third, solar wing and mast are folded. "Rabbit" after illness, three conditions are not met. I stick to my earlier guess: Yutu lost the capability of moving between Jan 14 and Jan 21, hence couldn't met conditions (1) and (2). |
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