Chang'e 3: Lunar Day 3 and onwards, Ongoing discussion of the Rover/Lander mission Options

[Hungry4info]

The China Space facebook page reports the lander has awaken (Link).
I haven't heard anything about the rover.

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[Phil Stooke]

CE3's lander is still active! (as of June and July 2020 anyway):

https://twitter.com/df2mz/status/1282242945291374592

and

https://twitter.com/uhf_satcom/status/1267556732080971776


There's also this article in Chinese:

https://news.cctv.com/2020/09/02/ARTIqB5tNF...khi200902.shtml


It refers to a recently published study using Yutu's radar data for subsurface structure and geological history. The original is here:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...29/2020GL088938

(it's not open access). But the Chinese article also mentions "As of September 1, 2020, Chang'e-3 has been in the moon for 2453 days, and it is now in a "retired" state, that is, in the long-term management stage, and part of the lander's scientific payload is still working." |(Google translation). That part of the payload might only be the communication system, for all this tells us, but it might also suggest the UV camera is still functioning. I have no confirmation of that, but I understand some papers from the UV data are in preparation.

PS - for a recent paper on the UV data, see https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/...27/19/7/94/meta



Phil