An amazing new video offers to look at the world's first fit on the dark side of the moon in a new video on the mysterious reverse side of the moon. Almost a 3-minute video was filmed by the Chinese mission Chang'e-4, which landed on January 2 in the crater Karman with a width of 185 km
Black and white shots begin with a wonderful view of a battered lunar landscape against a background of cosmic darkness. After 1 minute, the camera goes down. You can see how dozens of small grooves at the bottom of the crater become clearer.
Then Chang'e-4 for a short period of time stops the descent to find the safest place, after which it continues to move. You can notice the dust flow raised by the engines of the device. The Chang'e-4 is represented by the stationary descent vehicle and the six-wheeled Yutu-2 rover.
On the spacecraft there are 8 scientific instruments that are used to characterize the surface and the state under the surface of the crater Karman. The mission will allow a better understanding of the internal structure and evolutionary history of the moon.
New data will also help to understand why the reverse side is very different from turned to Earth. For example, the surface we see is covered by seas (volcanic deposits) that are rarely found on the dark side.
The far side of the moon in the observation of the Chang'e-4 spacecraft before landing on January 2, 2019
The mission’s information comes to Earth via the Queqiao satellite transponder, which China launched into a gravitationally stable place outside the moon in May 2018. Chang'e-4 will also undertake a biological experiment, since there is a small container with silkworm eggs and plant seeds on board. The goal is to trace how organisms grow and develop under conditions of low gravity.
The surface of the dark side of the Moon is getting closer in the sequence of images of the descent taken by the Chang'e-4 spacecraft on January 2, 2019
The mission was named in honor of the Chinese moon goddess. In the 2007 and 2010s. Chang'e 1 and 2 orbiters launched, and Chang'e-3 successfully landed on the near side of the moon in December 2013.
In October, the Chang'e-5T1 mission sent a prototype capsule that was supposed to deliver lunar samples to the ground. The equipment has been tested and is planned to be used in the future mission of Chang'e-5, which may begin this year.
