A team of researchers has found evidence suggesting that the regolith material on which the Chinese rover Yutu-2 is situated consists mainly of material that was thrown there when an asteroid struck the moon nearby. In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the group describes their analyses of data sent back by the rover and what they learned from…
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China’s Rover Finds Layers of Surprise Under Moon’s Far Side
The Chang’e-4 mission, the first to land on the lunar far side, is demonstrating the promise and peril of using ground-penetrating radar in planetary science. From a report: China’s robotic Chang’e-4 spacecraft did something last year that had never been done before: It landed on the moon’s far side, and Yutu-2, a small rover it was carrying, began trundling through a…
Chinese moon rover peers beneath surface of mysterious lunar far side
The first published data from the Yutu 2 rover’s ground-penetrating radar instrument reveal the layered structure beneath the gray dirt of Von Kármán Crater’s floor. Source: https://www.livescience.com/china-change-4-moon-far-side-subsurface.html
China’s rover has discovered what lies beneath the moon’s far side
China’s Yutu-2 rover has used radar to peer 40 metres under the surface of the far side of the moon and revealed how past impacts have shaped its geology Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2235312-chinas-rover-has-discovered-what-lies-beneath-the-moons-far-side/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
China’s Farside Moon Rover Breaks Lunar Longevity Record
China’s farside rover, Yutu 2, has broken the longevity record for working on the surface of the moon. Source: https://www.livescience.com/china-farside-moon-rover-breaks-record.html
Olivine-norite rock detected by Yutu-2 likely crystallized from the SPA impact melt pool
The South Pole-Aitken (SPA) is the largest and deepest basin on the Moon, theoretically opening a window into the lunar lower crust and likely into the upper mantle. However, compositional information of the SPA basin was mainly obtained from orbital remote sensing. Chang’E-4 landed in the SPA Basin, providing a unique chance for in situ probing the composition of the lunar…
Stunning view inside a young moon crater
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned some amazing high-resolution photos of the surface of the moon, including these ones of steep cliffs and impact melt inside a young crater called Giordano Bruno. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/giordano-bruno-crater-moon-steep-cliff-and-impact-melt-lro-todays-image-space…
An update on that ‘gel’ on the moon
China’s Yutu-2 rover has sent back a new image of the unusual “gel-like” material it found last July, which seems to confirm that it’s not gel at all. Instead, it now appears it’s probably impact glass from a meteorite impact. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/gel-on-the-moon-impact-glass-china-yutu-2…
Mystery Moon ‘gel’ revealed in new photograph
China has published a new image showing the strange substance found by Yutu-2 on the dark side of the Moon. Situated within the 2,500km-wide South Pol… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/331466/mystery-moon-gel-revealed-in-new-photograph…
What has China’s rover found on the moon’s far side?
Chinese media have reported that the Yutu-2 rover has discovered a “gel-like” substance in a crater on the far side of the moon. It sounds intriguing, but details are still scarce. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/what-has-chinas-rover-found-on-the-moons-far-side…