嫦娥四号巡视器、着陆器相继完成唤醒设置,进入第7月昼工作
中国探月工程 发布于 2019-06-27 12:21:37 投诉
2019年6月26日13时26分,嫦娥四号巡视器完成唤醒设置,进入第7月昼工作模式。本次月昼工作期间,巡视器将按规划路线继续移动,搭载的红外光谱仪、全景相机、中性原子探测仪、测月雷达等有效载荷将开展月球地形地貌、物质成分、周边环境等科学探测工作。
嫦娥四号着陆器于6月27日9时45分完成自主唤醒,地面设置开展正常,载荷数据接收正常。进入第7月昼工作后,着陆器搭载的月表中子及辐射剂量探测仪、低频射电频谱仪等科学载荷将按计划陆续开机,开展月球背面中子辐射剂量、低频射电天文观测等科学探测工作。
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China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 7th lunar day
Source: Xinhua| 2019-06-27 14:54:08|Editor: Yang Yi
BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhua) -- The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the seventh lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extreme cold night.
The lander woke up at 9:45 a.m. Thursday, and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 1:26 p.m. Wednesday. Both are in normal working condition, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
The rover has traveled more than 212 meters on the moon to conduct scientific exploration on the virgin territory.
China's Chang'e-4 probe, launched on Dec. 8, 2018, made the first-ever soft landing on the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon on Jan. 3.
A lunar day equals 14 days on Earth, and a lunar night is the same length. The Chang'e-4 probe switched to a dormant mode during the lunar night due to the lack of solar power.
As a result of the tidal locking effect, the moon's revolution cycle is the same as its rotation cycle, and the same side always faces Earth.
The scientific tasks of the Chang'e-4 mission include low-frequency radio astronomical observation, surveying the terrain and landforms, detecting the mineral composition and shallow lunar surface structure and measuring neutron radiation and neutral atoms.
The Chang'e-4 mission embodies China's hope to combine human wisdom in space exploration with four payloads developed by the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Saudi Arabia.