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posted by janrinok on Thursday January 09 2020, @01:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the say-cheese dept.

China's lander releases data, high-resolution images of the Moon:

A little more than one year ago, China's Chang'e 4 spacecraft landed on the far side of the Moon. In doing so, it became the first-ever vehicle to make a soft landing on the side of the Moon facing away from Earth.

To mark the one-year anniversary, China released a batch of scientific data and images captured by five scientific payloads aboard the 1.2-ton spacecraft and its small Yutu 2 rover. Since the landing, the rover has driven a little more than 350 meters across the Moon's surface, studying rock formations and taking additional photos. The data was collected over a period of 12 lunar "days," or most of the last year.

The lander itself carried an excellent camera to image its surroundings. Extra sharp with a good color balance, the Terrain Camera was mounted at the top of the lander, with the ability to rotate 360 degrees. Before it died at the end of the first lunar day, this TCAM returned detailed images of the Moon. A helpful Twitter user in France, Techniques Spatiales, converted the camera's imagery into .png files, which can be found here.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday January 09 2020, @02:01AM (4 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday January 09 2020, @02:01AM (#941286) Journal

    When the "light" or near side of the Moon is dark, the "dark" or far side is light. And a side is light/dark once per month. Not that hard to understand, once you realize the Moon is in a tidally locked orbit around the Earth. Just another instance where racism is the product of ignorance and a lack of scientific understanding.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday January 09 2020, @04:07AM (3 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 09 2020, @04:07AM (#941318) Journal

    When the "light" or near side of the Moon is dark, the "dark" or far side is light. And a side is light/dark once per month. Not that hard to understand, once you realize the Moon is in a tidally locked orbit around the Earth. Just another instance where racism is the product of ignorance and a lack of scientific understanding.

    Oh, magister, in your haste to mock a joking post (granted, a quite lame one) you decided to put up a show of your rabbit liberal view that you exspouse and so you laid bear your lack of scientific understanding or your unwillingness to tell it as it is.

    As etonnement for you sin, compute the ratio between Earth and Sun gravitational forces on the Moon and see which body the Moon mainly orbits and which is the other one that just influences Moon's orbit.

    Then, in regards with the tide pods, pounder on this idea: tidal friction should maek teh Moon to fall onto Earth over time, thus realizing a minimal potential energy. How, then, you explain that Moon gets away from Earth? Assuming an eternal Sun, what would be the faith of teh too bodies?

    (large grin)

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Thursday January 09 2020, @04:50AM (2 children)

      by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday January 09 2020, @04:50AM (#941326) Journal

      Here we have evidence that prolonged exposure to the smoke from normally toxic Australian plant life can affect rational thought! Are you OK, c0lo? The Moon (Selene) has her own loves, which will draw her away from Gaia, albeit at an astronomically slow rate. No worries. And are you OK?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 09 2020, @05:13AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 09 2020, @05:13AM (#941333)

        You are trolling much better than usual today. Woke up on the right side of the bed?

      • (Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday January 09 2020, @05:17AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 09 2020, @05:17AM (#941335) Journal

        Here we have evidence that prolonged exposure to the smoke from normally toxic Australian plant life can affect rational thought!

        But not the observational abilities. At least the impact is not that serious to fail noticing you didn't answer to the question: which of the Sun or Earth have the strongest influence on Moon's orbit?

        Are you OK, c0lo?

        Yeap, thanks for asking. I'm just telling it as it is.

        The Moon (Selene) has her own loves, which will draw her away from Gaia, albeit at an astronomically slow rate.

        Actually, that's false.
        It's the very Earth that chases Moon away, while it can that is - and by "can" I mean "while the Earth day is shorter than a month".
        Assuming both live long enough, Gaia and Selene will end being both tidal locked one to the other with a rotation around their common center mass at around 47 days and Selene never being able to see Gaia's dark side any longer.

        If that was to continue, everything would go downhill: Earth will continue to lose rotational momentum due to the tidal interaction with the Sun. This will cause the Moon to lose momentum too (via tidal interaction with the Earth); Selene will finally feel back an attraction to Gaia and start to close up. Add another few tens of billions of years and the distance will be small enough to shred Selene into pieces due to the tidal forces.

        Fortunately, until that happens, Apollo will get old, senile and starved enough to go on a rampage through its system.

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