بالصور.. المسبار الصيني “تشـانغ آن -4” يرسل أول صورة لوجه القمر المظلم

ظهرت على الإنترنت الصور الأولى في التاريخ للجانب المظلم من القمر، التي التقطها وأرسلها المسبار الصيني "تشانغ آن -4". وأشارت

بالصور.. المسبار الصيني “تشـانغ آن -4” يرسل أول صورة لوجه القمر المظلم

ظهرت على الإنترنت الصور الأولى في التاريخ للجانب المظلم من القمر، التي التقطها وأرسلها المسبار الصيني “تشانغ آن -4”.

وأشارت بعض وسائل الإعلام إلى أن المسبار، يقوم ببعض التجارب الجيولوجية والاختبارات في مجال زراعة الكائنات الحية في ظروف الجاذبية المنخفضة.

وفي وقت سابق ذكرت الأنباء، أن المركبة الفضائية الصينية “تشانغ آن -4″، قد انطلقت إلى القمر ليلة الـ8 من ديسمبر/ كانون الثاني 2018، وهبطت اليوم بنجاح على الجانب المظلم من سطحه.

By 5pm Beijing time (09:00 GMT) the three fifteen-foot long antennaes on Chang'e-4 had also been fully unfurled to enable the low-frequency radio spectrometre to begin work. The rover which is currently meandering around the moon on six independently controlled wheels, has also established a robust connection with its relay satellite, Queqiao 

A Chinese rover is making its tracks on the soft surface of the 'dark' side of the moon after touching down on our nearest celestial neighbour. The Yutu-2 - or Jade Rabbit 2 - rover drove off its lander's ramp and onto the snow-like exterior of the moon's far side at 10:22pm GMT on Thursday, about 12 hours after the Chinese spacecraft carrying it came to rest. Its scientific instruments include a panoramic camera, ground-penetrating radar, and instruments to identify the chemical makeup of the lunar surface

Yutu-2 has a host of instruments and will be powered by solar panels.  Unlike the similar probe on-board the Chang'e-3 mission this rover has no robotic arm. It does have radar, panoramic and infrared cameras and six wheels which work independently 

A never-before-seen 'close range' image taken by the Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-4 of the surface of the far side of the moon. It appears to take on a reddish hue in some of the images released by China, an effect of the lights used by the probe

This picture of Yutu-2 was taken from the lander as the rover was being released. It shows a close-up of one of Yutu-2's wheels

A photograph taken from the Chang'e-4 probe during its landing process, as it became the first rover to ever reach the surface of the dark side of the moon

This is one of the first ever close-up images taken of the dark side of the moon which never faces towards Earth. This region is vastly unexplored and unknown to scientists compared to the side of the moon we can see and have visited with the Apollo and subsequent NASA missions

The Lunar explorer touched down at 10.26am local time (2.26am GMT). While stationed on the moon, Chang'e-4 will attempt to recce the Von in the Aitken basin, the largest impact crater in the entire solar system at eight miles (13km) deep and 1,600 miles (2,500km) in diameter

Jade Rabbit 2 weighs 308lbs (139kg) and has six individually powered wheels so it can continue to operate even if one wheel fails. It rolled on to the lunar surface from the lander via two ramps and will explore the Von Karman crater in the southern region of the far side of the moon 

The mission is formed of three basic parts - the rover, the lander and the relay satellite. They will work in unison to study, analyse and send information back to the scientists on Earth

Technicians work at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) in Beijingto on January 3 make the Chang'e-4 probe landing successful. It touched down on the far side of the moon and in the process became the first spacecraft soft-landing on the moon's uncharted 'dark side' which is never visible from Earth

Emotional space technicians celebrate the landing at the Beijing Aerospace Control Centre on January 3. Beijing is pouring billions into the military-run programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022, and of eventually sending humans to the moon

The Beijing Aerospace Control Centre looks on anxiously as the lunar rover begins its approach to the surface on January 3

Chang'e-4 will target the South Pole-Aitken basin's Von Karman crater. This image shows a simulated landing process of Chang'e-4 lunar probe seen through the monitor at Beijing Aerospace Control Center

A simulation released by the Chinese space agency (CNSA) shows how the probe, comprising a lander and a rover, would have landed at a preselected area on the far side of the moon

There have been numerous landings on the moon as a result of the 20th century space race between the US and the USSR - including the famed Apollo 11 mission which saw Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans on the moon. After Luna 24  landed on August 18 the next lunar landing was the Chinese mission Chang'e-3 on December 14, 2013. Chang'e-4 is the first spacecraft to land on the far side of the moon 

The relay satellite which will allow the probe to communicate with engineers in Beijing is called Queqiao and had to fly to a Earth-Moon point in orbit around 50,000 miles away from the moon's surface (pictured)

The Chinese plan involved two missions. One placed a satellite in orbit around the moon to provide a means of sending information and data back to Earth (left). The other part involves a lander and rover which will work together to explore the surface of the moon (right)

 

Source: Tamol.om

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