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FP trend12 November 2020 12:36:00 IST
The Chang’e-4 spacecraft lander and rover resumed work for the 24th lunar day on the opposite side of the moon.
Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted the China National Space Administration’s Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center to report that the lander woke up at 12.42 am IST (3.12 am Beijing time) on Tuesday while the Yutu-2 rover woke up at 7.47 am IST (10.17 am. Beijing) on Monday.
The Chinese probe spent 677 Earth days on the moon after it was launched on January 3, 2019.
China’s Jade Rabbit-2 rover makes its first tracks on the far side of the moon on January 3, 2019, after rolling off the Chang’e 4 lander. Image Courtesy: CNSA
The report added that one lunar day equals 14 Earth days, while lunar nights are the same as Earth nights. Since the Chang’e-4 probe runs on solar energy, it goes into sleep mode during the nights. Therefore, as a lunar day approaches, the lander and rover must wake up to continue their research studies on the far side of the moon.
The Yutu-2 rover, also known as the Jade Rabbit-2, will travel northwest on the 24th lunar day to explore the basaltic area or impact craters with high reflectivity. Here, it will take “at least one panoramic photo, and its infrared spectrometer, neutral atom detector and lunar radar will continue to conduct scientific exploration.”
The report touched on the importance of the data collected by the Chang’e-4 probe as Chinese scientists found that the characteristics of mafic components in the South Pole-Aitken basin are similar to the results of remote sensing using the ejecta detection probe.
The spacecraft’s research helped scientists understand the basis of the mafic anomaly found in the South Pole-Aitken lunar basin. The all research and its result you can access it from the magazine Science China Information Sciences.
The probe had awakened in September from its work on the 22nd lunar day. Even then, the rover’s purpose was to march to the northwest side of the moon.
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