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Chang'e 4
molesworth:
--- Quote from: Dalhousie on January 02, 2019, 02:23:09 AM ---Landing attempt in the next few hours https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/01/chinas-change-4-spacecraft-will-land-on-dark-side-of-the-moon-in-the-next-60-hours.html
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Thanks for the update. It's an exciting few days, between Chang'e 4 and New Horizons :)
bknight:
First image from the far side of the Moon after lander touched down. Congratulations to the China Space Agency.
https://www.space.com/42883-china-first-landing-moon-far-side.html
onebigmonkey:
I managed to match the area on the landing sequence they've released with the LRO imagery:
The coordinates in the centre are -45.4564, 177.5963.
bknight:
--- Quote from: onebigmonkey on January 03, 2019, 08:55:00 AM ---I managed to match the area on the landing sequence they've released with the LRO imagery:
The coordinates in the centre are -45.4564, 177.5963.
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Kinda in the SW corner area with one medium crater leading to three more in a NE direction?
Dalhousie:
Good report here, note it uses Chang'e 3 images to illustrate surface operations, presumably because it was written before the rabbit escaped it's hutch.
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/01/china-returning-moon-change-4-mission/
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