Author: Meghan Bartels / Source: Space.com
(Image: © CNSA)
The lunar home of China’s Chang’e-4 lander, which landed on the far side of the moon Jan. 3, now has a name: Statio Tianhe.
Statio means a post or station in Latin and is also used in the formal name for the Apollo 11 landing site, Statio Tranquillitatis; Tianhe is an ancient Chinese name for the Milky Way sky river that is used in a folk tale called “The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
” The location is near the previously named Von Kármán Crater.The International Astronomical Union, which oversees all formal names for features in space and on…
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