The lawyer and rover of the Chang’e-4 lunar probe in China were switched to sleep mode for a lunar night. According to a media report, this was done due to lack of solar power. “The Chang’e-4 probe, which was switched to lunar night mode due to lack of solar power, had been on the other side of the moon for 778 days on Earth on Saturday, and the rover has traveled 652.62 meters. A lunar day and night every 14 equal days on Earth ”, read the report.
According to the Lunar Exploration, the lawyer and rover Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), was converted to dorm mode on Friday, February 19. According to the report, the rover is in good condition. Also, all scientific payrolls work as usual.
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Earlier in December, China’s rover Chang’e-4 made history when it successfully landed on the side near the moon. The robotic mission of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program aimed to bring lunar samples back to Earth for the first time since the 1970s. The Chang’e 5 probe is the latest experiment with the Chinese space program that put its first astronaut into orbit in 2003, which has a spacecraft en route to Mars, and at ultimately it aims to take man to the moon. The Lawyer was launched on November 23 at 20:30 UTC from the tropical island of southern Hainan. He is expected to return to Earth around December 16-17.
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China Chang’e 5 flight is its third successful lunar flight after its predecessor, Chang’e 4, the first testee to land on the other side of which little research has been done on the moon last year. The latest flight involves a collaboration with the European Space Agency, which is helping to monitor the mission. At the same time, China’s space program has progressed more cautiously than the U.S.-Soviet space race of the 1960s, which was marked by launch deaths and failures. China became the third country to launch an astronaut into orbit on its own in 2003 after the Soviet Union and the United States and launched a crew space station.
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