Chang'E 6- Sample Return |
Chang'E 6- Sample Return |
Aug 1 2023, 07:16 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10154 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02038-1
Open access paper on the landing area. Note that it is not south polar, the thread title is incorrect. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 2 2023, 06:35 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Agreed. Topic title changed.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Apr 12 2024, 06:28 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10154 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Chang'e 6 is preceded by its relay satellite Queqiao 2 and two little companions, Tiandu-1 and Tiandu-2. The large Queqiao 2 is in a frozen highly elliptical orbit which spends much of its time high over the southern farside, where it will be able to relay data from Chang'e 4 and 6 as well as the polar landers CE-7 and 8. Its companions are in different orbits and are designed to test technologies for future relay systems.
Tiandu-2 took a far infrared image of part of the Moon and a distant Earth: (CNSA image, contrast stretched) The largest crater is Landau on the northern far side. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Apr 30 2024, 07:11 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 123 Joined: 3-September 12 From: Almeria, SE Spain Member No.: 6632 |
Cháng'é-6 launch next "early Friday, May 3"?
https://spacenews.com/china-ready-to-launch...return-mission/ Thorsten |
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Apr 30 2024, 12:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1423 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
The Planetary Society has a good article on the mission, including an interesting tidbit I wasn't aware of until now:https://www.planetary.org/articles/change-6...-what-to-expect
QUOTE Finally, a student-built Pakistani CubeSat named ICUBE-Q will separate from Chang’e-6 into lunar orbit and take images of the orbiter, the Moon, and the Earth. It will also measure the Moon’s magnetic field. The landing site experiences sunset on May 12/13. So we'll see this landing occurring in the evening rather than the morning.
-------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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