The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter probe took photos of the Chang’e 6 mission, on the far side of the Moon. Look at the pictures and try to find the Chinese probe
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), from NASAtook photos of the Chinese mission Chang’e 6 on the moon. The recordings were made on June 7, when LRO visited the Chinese spacecraft inside the Apollo basin on the far side of the Moon.
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Mark Robinson, the principal investigator of LRO’s LROC camera, explained on the instrument’s website that Chang’e 6 appears accompanied by two craters of similar size. Next to them is a crater 50 m in diameter.
“The increased brightness of the terrain around the lander is due to disturbance of the lander’s engine and is similar to the blast zone seen around other lunar landers,” the LROC members wrote.
Try to find Chang’e 6 in the photo below:
The photo was taken about a week after Chang’e 6 landed in the Apollo basin. This is a formation found in one of the so-called lunar “seas”.regions made up of volcanic rocks that have cooled and solidified.
“Several wrinkled ridges in this region have deformed and raised the sea surface [lunar]”, they specified in the description of the photo. “The landing point is located approximately halfway between two of these ridges,” they added.
According to the team, the lava flow that formed this region overlaps with another, slightly older, one that appears to the east. The newer flow stands out in the landscape because it has a greater amount of iron oxide and titanium oxide.
Chang’e 6
China’s Chang’e 6 probe has landed far side of the Moon on June 2 and collected samples from the mysterious region. After storing the precious material, it was on June 4 that the probe’s ascension module left the surface and continued into lunar orbit.
The component joined the orbiter of the Chang’e 6 and transferred the material. Now, the return segment continues to orbit the Moon, waiting for the moment to begin the journey back to Earth. If all goes well, the capsule with the samples should land in Inner Mongolia at the end of the month.
Source: NASA
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