China landed a spacecraft on the dark side of the moon

Completing 50 years since the man stepped his foot on the Moon, China became the first state to land a spacecraft on the remote side of the Moon.

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According to China Global Television Network America, on Jan. 2 a Chinese spacecraft that launched from China in early December and carries a rover landed in a crater on the side of the Moon that always faces away from Earth. The landing marks a major technological achievement for the country and puts China among the elite space flight level.

The successful landing on the moon was one of a series of planned missions, codenamed Chang'e-4 mission, aimed at exploring the of the Moon. Before this program, China had sent a spacecraft with a rover to the bright side of the Moon, making a third country soft landing on its surface.

This effort was not something simple and no one had succeeded so far, because it is difficult to communicate with the robots on the side of the Moon that we can not see. Without direct visual contact with the Earth, there is no simple way to receive radio signals from spacecraft on the dark side of the moon. And to put it bluntly, things are not dark, since the sun sees them, it is simply not visible from Earth. So the term "solitary" is more probable.

China managed to make the communication using a lunar satellite launched in May, and acts as a mediator between the spacecraft and the Earth.

The landing on the Moon was made on a crater in the south pole called Aitken. It is an area of ​​lunar surface that many scientists want to explore. The crater, which is about 1.550 miles wide, is considered to be a very old crater, created when a huge rock hit the Moon billions of years ago. Assessing the exact age of the basin created by the collision could help us learn more about when this incident occurred, providing clues about how the environment of the Solar System was.

Chang'e-4 may not be able to estimate the exact age of the South Pole-Aitken Basin, but it is equipped with several scientific instruments that will tell us more about this mysterious part of the Moon. The spacecraft will soon deploy its rover, which will learn more about the composition and structure of the rocks in this area. For now it will focus on the sky, gathering data for astronomers here on Earth, eager to take advantage of the spacecraft's unique location on the far side of the Moon. At night, when the Moon shields this region from both the Sun and radio signals from Earth, the spacecraft should have an unparalleled view of the a.

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Written by Dimitris

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