More than 50 years after the first lunar landing, has launched a Chinese probe for the first time on the back of the moon. “Chang’e 4” landed early Thursday morning at 3.26 PM CET on Aitken crater near the South pole of the moon.
In the Chinese state television, the speech was a historic landing and a major technological breakthrough. Minutes after landing, the probe radioed the first pictures to the earth, to see where the surface of the moon.
The first soft landing on the moon succeeded the Soviet probe “Luna 9” in 1966. In 1959, crashed Luna 2 on the moon. In 1969, an American walked on the Astronaut for the first time, the surface of the moon.
China is the first Nation that landed on the earth-facing side of the moon. On Board of the “Chang’e 4”, named after the Chinese moon goddess, is located a robot vehicle to explore in a next step, the Terrain around the landing site.
Chinese experts had referred to the Mission in the run-up as very demanding. As an obstacle, the friction was lots of communication with the earth, because on the back of the moon there is no direct radio connection can be established. Therefore, the Chinese brought back in may the transmission of satellite “Queqiao” (bridge of magpies) in the Position of signals from the radio-shadows send.
With a smooth flow of the lunar Mission is to be demonstrated that China’s ambitious space program is making great progress.
among other things, experiments with low radio frequencies are Planned. Without the earth’s atmosphere and other disturbances, astronomers can collect in the silence of space better signals in the hope of new insights about the origin of the stars.
in Addition, it has loaded the “Chang’e 4” seed that is to be examined, whether growing vegetables in a closed environment, power of the moon’s surface is at low.
China has big plans
On Board is also a by scientists of the Kiel Christian-Albrechts-University of developed radiation measuring. The Kiel Experiment should be measured at least for a year the radiation and the water content of the soil and send data back to earth. The findings of this should help future manned missions to the moon to prepare.
2019 China plans another unmanned landing to rock samples back to earth. By 2030, the first Chinese to set foot on the moon. The moon missions are only a part of the ambitious space programme of China, which also includes the construction of a space station around 2022.
“Chang’e 4” was on 8. December, up from the ground and reached, according to state television on 12. December, the moon’s orbit.
“Chang’e 3” had landed the Chinese for the first time in 2013, a probe on the front side of the moon – far later than the Russians and the Americans. The United States had brought to unmanned probes between 1969 and 1972 twelve astronauts on the moon. (dpa)
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