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 20 2014, 01:50 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10173 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Even if they could not move, in an effort to keep alive at all costs they would still have folded the mast and closed the folding panel if they could, so I expect that capability is also lost.
Meanwhile... trying to put together information gleaned at LPSC: the route map I referred to earlier included a dashed line extending NNE past the lander and approaching the blocky-rimmed crater just north of the lander. The author told me that was the intended path of the drive before the failure, so I think the rover was not trying to reach the lander for diagnostic purposes as some have suggested. It was simply bypassing it on the way to the next target. And the speaker on Monday said the plan after that was to loop around to the northern rim of the large crater to the west, to look into it from that direction. That speaker was originally going to talk about route planning for the rover (the abstract and a published paper had indicated two targets for possible visits, NE and SW of the lander). But that part of the talk was dropped. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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