Articles with "lunar far" as a keyword



Overview of the Chang’e-4 Mission: Opening the Frontier of Scientific Exploration of the Lunar Far Side

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Published in 2021 at "Space Science Reviews"

DOI: 10.1007/s11214-021-00793-z

Abstract: China’s Chang’e-4 (CE-4) mission is the first human lander/rover mission on the far side of the Moon. Its probe is composed of a lander, rover, and the Queqiao relay satellite. Queqiao was successfully launched on… read more here.

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Thermophysical properties of the regolith on the lunar far side revealed by the in situ temperature probing of the Chang’E-4 mission

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Published in 2022 at "National Science Review"

DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwac175

Abstract: Abstract Temperature probes onboard the Chang’E-4 (CE-4) spacecraft provide the first in situ regolith temperature measurements from the far side of the Moon. We present these temperature measurements with a customized thermal model and reveal… read more here.

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Nature of the lunar far-side samples returned by the Chang'E-6 mission

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Published in 2024 at "National Science Review"

DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwae328

Abstract: ABSTRACT The Chang'E-6 (CE-6) mission successfully achieved return of the first samples from the far side of the Moon. The sampling site of CE-6 is located in the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin—the largest, deepest and… read more here.

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