Overview of the Chang’e-4 Mission: Opening the Frontier of Scientific Exploration of the Lunar Far Side
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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.
Keywords: far side; chang mission; mission; scientific exploration ... See more keywords
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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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.
Keywords: lunar far; far side; lunar; regolith ... See more keywords