Chang'e-4 farside landing mission |
Chang'e-4 farside landing mission |
Jul 31 2019, 10:31 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10150 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
A map of the impact area. The ellipse does not represent the formal uncertainty, it just indicates the approximate area and the direction of approach. I am assuming that Daniel Estevez's analysis did not take into account actual topography and just assumed a spherical Moon, so the along-track dispersion could be larger than this suggests.
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Aug 7 2019, 05:37 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10150 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1159087623882903552
Andrew Jones tweets a drive distance of 33 m and a total of 271 m for day 8 (I have to work really hard not to write 'sol 8'). Two images are released, one showing tracks, the other taken with a high sun and showing bright crater rims. It looks southwest. The big crater with a few visible blocks might be the large sharp-rimmed crater shown in the latest route map, but I am not sure yet. If it is, most of the 33 m must have been driven early in the lunar day and only a bit after this was taken. I think. More information might overturn my speculations. Here is the crater image in a rough perspective view: Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 18 2019, 08:14 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10150 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
A very detailed analysis of the Longjiang 2 impact location:
https://destevez.net/2019/08/trying-to-find...p-b-crash-site/ Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 19 2019, 09:20 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 156 Joined: 22-May 09 From: Ireland Member No.: 4792 |
Was close - initially posted on UMSF 29 July, 2019, 01.23pm
Below, an attempt of impact location according to Estevez's grayscale image from this article. John |
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Aug 20 2019, 08:32 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10150 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
There is a drive log for lunar day 8 HERE.
(That's a horrible URL, there must be a more direct way to link to the site). Yutu 2 drove mostly to the west but turned off the path, probably to the southwest, to investigate a small very fresh crater which had an unusual object in or beside it. Sounds like a blob of impact glass. Then they backed up a bit, away from the crater. I got this from here: https://twitter.com/zengxingguo Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Aug 23 2019, 09:23 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10150 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
This is a composite of several images from the above driver's blog, reprojected very roughly to give a picture of the recent travels.
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Aug 25 2019, 11:54 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10150 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
There is a newly accepted paper in Geophysical Research Letters from Hu et al., on VNIS compositions at six sites over the first two lunar days. This builds on the paper on day 1 results which came out earlier. Bottom line is that the sampled materials are probably from the South Pole - Aitken basin impact melt sheet rather than basin ejecta.
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Aug 31 2019, 08:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2082 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
A bit more detail on the small impact crater and the detour here: https://www.space.com/china-far-side-moon-r...-substance.html
Might be impact glass, indeed! |
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Sep 2 2019, 03:08 PM
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It seems very likely that the Chinese scientists would already know of natural glass, caused by meteorite impacts. Why, then, refer to this unidentified substance as 'gel-like'? They presumably had grounds for doing so. Moldavites and Libyan desert glass are usually green or yellow-green in color and not transparent. Perhaps this mysterious substance on the Moon was of some other color, or transparent, as gels often are.
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Sep 2 2019, 06:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2082 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
My bet is something got lost in translation, rather than it being an actual gel as understood on earth.
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Sep 2 2019, 07:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 5-January 07 From: Manchester England Member No.: 1563 |
In English 'gel' is something that is mostly liquid by weight, but behaves much like a solid due to a scaffold of long molecules runningthrough it... My memory of that definition may be off but my point it is that in English that word refers to a specific state of matter. Is it possible that, in Chinese, the word or phrase is more nubulously defined, or more descriptive of appearance than material state? I can imagine impact glass looks my gel like. I could also imagine a 'glass gel' of an impure glassy (by which I just mean non crystalline) material mixed with crystalline materials that might qualify as 'gel like' in another language, or specific context.
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Sep 3 2019, 12:15 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 68 Joined: 27-March 15 Member No.: 7426 |
The Chinese language appears to have distinct, specific words for both 'glass' and 'gel'--' boli' and 'ning jiao' respectively. They seem to mean the same, specific things that we do, when we use the words 'glass' and 'gel'.
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Sep 3 2019, 02:36 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10150 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Nevertheless, this report is not from scientists but via a journalist or media outreach person working with the mission. Blobs of impact glass were seen by every Apollo mission and there is no other reasonable interpretation of this, as far as I am concerned. We may have to wait for a journal paper to know more, maybe in a few months.
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Sep 3 2019, 10:35 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Agreed.
Furthermore, the difficulties of translation from Chinese dialects to English and vice versa are many, and that fact is rather well-known. Those become compounded if idiom is involved, or even many adjectives. But this case doesn't really seem that complicated. I can easily see how amorphous melt glass might be described as gel-like in appearance. Bottom line is no, Chang'e-4 has not found jelly on the Moon. -------------------- 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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Sep 5 2019, 09:50 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 866 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 196 |
We'll have to wait. For now im holding out hope for some forbidden moon gummies, even if moon pie bites may be s'more fun
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