Author: Paul Hill / Source: Neowin
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has announced the successful landing of the Chang’e 4 probe on the far-side of the Moon. The probe consists of a lander and a rover and marks the first time a spacecraft has touched down on that side of the Moon. As the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth we don’t have a direct line of sight to Chang’e 4 so a satellite is being used to relay data as it can see Earth and the far-side of the Moon from the second Lagrangian (L2) point of the Earth-Moon system.
The rover landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on 3 January 2019, 2:26 UTC but was launched on 7 December 2018 and has been orbiting the Moon ever since 12 December. While it’s there, the CNSA want to measure the…
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