China to the Moon - Chang'e program, Chinese unmanned lunar mission |
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China to the Moon - Chang'e program, Chinese unmanned lunar mission |
 Jun 10 2011, 05:34 PM
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Clementine was thinking along the same lines.
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Aug 29 2011, 05:13 PM
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-------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Aug 31 2011, 05:08 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1146 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2011-08/...nt_13224280.htm
QUOTE "This test will be very meaningful for China's future deep space exploration, as scientists are now discussing ideas of exploring Jupiter and the two poles of the Sun in the future," Oh my... 
-------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Aug 31 2011, 05:11 PM
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Scientists discussing something makes it far from certain that that something will actually ever happen. Sadly.
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Sep 1 2011, 11:08 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1146 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
Just published in the latest issue of the Chinese Journal of Space Science the paper Research of lunar tectonic features: Primary results from Chang'E-1 lunar CCD image
the paper itself is in Chinese (but there is a nice English abstract) but it contains quite a few Chang'e 1 pictures that I had never seen before -------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Sep 21 2011, 06:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1146 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
-------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
James Van Allen |
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Sep 21 2011, 07:32 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1146 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
the release is accompanied by a nice graph (in Chinese)
-------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
James Van Allen |
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Nov 7 2011, 08:24 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1146 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
what next for CE-2?
according to this interview (in Chinese) http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2011-09...c_122063243.htm it will remain at L2 until the end of next year. Then, depending on the remaining fuel it may fly to the Sun-Earth L1 point, flyby a near Earth asteroid or comet, or return to the Moon -------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Feb 6 2012, 06:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1146 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
anybody seen this site before?
http://159.226.88.59:7779/CE1OutENGWeb/ce2files.jsp "thumbnails" are actually full resolution images. under Mozilla: click right and then select "view image" -------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Feb 6 2012, 10:23 PM
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I had looked at that and some similar pages, but it never occurred to me to try and save the little thumbnail (since it didn't obviously link to anything). Now I'm happy!
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Feb 7 2012, 11:18 PM
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Recently released lunar global map, in JP2 format (1.4 GB compressed): ftp://DataRelease:1q2w124@159.226.88.39/C...obal-50m-sc.rar
You can also find some other Chang'e 2 stuffs on this FTP server. An online viewer: http://159.226.88.30:8080/CE2release/cesMain.jsp
Left: Google Moon; Right: Chang'e 2 |
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Feb 8 2012, 04:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4507 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
The new map is very nice. I have just put a comment on LPOD about this but I'll repeat it here. The zoomable map works like the LROC Quickmap, except it does not have the extra level of detail provided by the LROC NAC frames. But when I zoom in on areas I know very well, I can see that the new Chinese map is better than the LROC WAC mosaic. The sun angle is higher, so topography is not so clearly seen, but the resolution is better than LROC WAC.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Mar 11 2012, 01:16 PM
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Lunar Rover Test in the Kumtag Desert, Gansu Province
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Mar 11 2012, 01:18 PM
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Chang'e 3 lunar rover, due to launch in 2013.
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Mar 11 2012, 09:10 PM
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Wonderful pictures, thanks for posting them here. I am really looking forward to this mission. I hope we will be able to see daily reports on the rover's activities.
It will be interesting to see if any Google Lunar X Prize team attempts a mission before Chang-E 3 in October 2013. I suspect not, I think China will have the next lander on the Moon. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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