Chang'e-4 farside landing mission |
Chang'e-4 farside landing mission |
Feb 20 2019, 08:47 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 27 Joined: 15-January 08 Member No.: 4014 |
I know CH4 and Yutu2 are resting now but I meant SOL-2 which already passed and there is no single photo from this day. (btw. we had plenty of photos, movie clips etc from first SOL so I wonder what's the cause of current situation.).
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Feb 20 2019, 07:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 122 Joined: 3-September 12 From: Almeria, SE Spain Member No.: 6632 |
I've seen one new picture that seems to be from the second month. Maybe.
It's from this tweet linking to this site. Thorsten |
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Feb 27 2019, 09:33 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10127 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
This chinese forum page:
http://www.9ifly.cn/thread-5819-98-1.html includes a route map for the first 2 lunar days. I assume it is based on real data and will update my map shortly. Any further information would be much appreciated. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 4 2019, 06:14 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10127 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
https://www.weibo.com/5386897742/HjniODYsW?...nd1551722722531
New images in a post on Weibo. Open in Chrome to get a translation. One is from a 'hazard camera' (to use MER/MSL terminology) or ICC (Insight) type of camera, mounted low and very wide angle. It looks northwest with the central peak on the horizon. The rover is only about 7 m further from the last night resting place. The second image is a closeup of the rock in front of the rover taken by the camera in the infrared spectrometer instrument. It shows the IR target on the rock. -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 4 2019, 07:33 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 156 Joined: 22-May 09 From: Ireland Member No.: 4792 |
So, if during the first lunar day the Rover travelled some 44.185 metres, travelled some 75.815 metres during the second day, the third lunar day involved some travelling by the Rover of ~ 7 metres in all to the rock.
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Mar 4 2019, 08:02 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10127 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Only the first half of the 3rd day, March 1 to 3, followed by the noon siesta we are in right now. They probably took quite a bit of that time to adjust the position of the rover to get the fixed field of view of the instrument pointing at the rock. And actually we don't know this is the only rock they have analyzed in these last few days.
The original Yutu only used the instrument on soils so pointing was not such an issue. It was heading for some light-toned rocks on the rim of the crater just north of the lander when the rover stopped moving, so the science team may have been planning a rock analysis that never happened. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 4 2019, 08:29 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
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Mar 4 2019, 08:51 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1414 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
I occasionally have the same trouble. Here are the two referenced images (not modified, the image quality really is that low, clearly the post on Weibo was not the true original images).
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Mar 10 2019, 08:44 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10127 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I don't know what happened with the above link, but it works fine for me.
Andrew Jones tweeted this: https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1104269021829128192 - giving some new images and a link to the source. The new images include a half-panorama taken at the end of lunar day 2, showing a group of small rocks which became the target of activities on the 3rd lunar day. If you go through the source you can piece it together: early in day 3 Yutu 2 moved on a dogleg path towards the rocks to put the VNIS (Visible and Near-Infrared Spectrometer) field of view on a small rock. The first attempt had the field of view just off the rock (Andrew did not reproduce that image, you have to go to the source to see it). The rover turned slightly and moved forwards and now the FOV was correctly placed. That takes us back to the images posted above. Today, March 10th, Yutu 2 is waking up after a noontime nap. Here is the panorama - patched with bits from the other images to cover sun glints etc. - and reprojected to show the area. My orientation might be slightly off but should not be too bad. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 11 2019, 04:57 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10127 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
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Mar 11 2019, 08:36 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 156 Joined: 22-May 09 From: Ireland Member No.: 4792 |
Third lunar night begins approximately on March 14, 2.30 UT, leading later to the fourth lunar day beginning approximately on 28 March 22.30 UT.
Note, above dates are related to terminator times over the landing site, not sleep-times/awakening-times of the Lander/Rover, which usually involves a day or two before or after the terminator dates occur. |
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Mar 16 2019, 11:06 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 547 Joined: 1-May 06 From: Scotland (Ecosse, Escocia) Member No.: 759 |
Nice summary of current status of Chang'e-4 here, as Yutu-2 attains its design lifetime...
SpaceNews Chang'e-4 |
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Mar 25 2019, 06:07 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10127 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1110035767697567746
Andrew Jones tweets a Chinese map and a nice picture of tracks. That was one of several track images shown in a presentation by Xiao Long at LPSC. I spoke to Long before his talk and he asked where I got the map information, as he didn't have access to it. I showed him the informal sites I had information from. In his talk he showed a redrawn version of my map! This new map solves that problem for Long, a proper Chinese map. I hope we will see this on a regular basis. Next I hope to see a few names for craters along the path. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 25 2019, 10:24 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10127 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Here's another Chinese forum page:
https://club.6parkbbs.com/life2/index.php?a...mp;tid=15228936 This is notable for a very early traverse plan. A hexagon around the lander, about 10 m on each side. They could follow either the clockwise or counterclockwise paths around the lander, photographing it from the vertices of the hexagon before departing. The counterclockwise path is blocked by large craters so the clockwise path was adopted, but modified so there was no imaging from D, north of the lander. This is exactly like the original CE3 - Yutu plan, but flipped north-south. This time I am adding the map here: -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 29 2019, 07:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1414 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
A paper in Nature that I can't access has some images.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0341-7 This tweet has the images attached, but there's not a lot of context. -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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