first Chinese explorer robot, Yutu (Jade Rabbit), already separated from the probe Chang’e 3 and started to walk the floor of the Moon, Chinese state television CCTV. The operation, broadcast by state television, occurred at 4:35 local time China on Sunday (20:35 GMT Saturday) on the lunar plain Sinus Iridium (Bay of Rainbows), where the probe E3 Chang had managed seven hours before landing on the moon .
China, which managed to Chang E 3, the first controlled an Earth ship in 37 years, landing is today the world’s second country that places a rover on the moon, after the Soviet Union, which deployed the Lunokhod 1 in November 1970 and the Lunokhod 2 in June 1973. Powered by solar panels and equipped with six wheels, a mechanical arm and three pairs of cameras, the Jade Rabbit-name chosen by popular vote-is capable of digging and probing by radar at depths up to one hundred meters.
also a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, powered by plutonium, which will allow you to regulate your temperature and withstand the cold lunar nights, in which the Moon can reach temperatures of 180 degrees below zero. With a weight of 140 kilos and 150 centimeters tall, the robot can move 200 meters per hour and the Chinese space program fully expected to work for three months.
During his mission, installed a telescope on the moon for the first time in history and observe the plasmasphere (ionized gas surrounding the Earth).
Jade Rabbit name comes from an ancient Chinese legend that this animal lives on the moon with the goddess Chang E, a story based on the idea that the gray spots forming the lunar maria and that distinguished from Earth resemble the silhouette of a giant rabbit.
Chang Chinese unmanned probe E3 has landed in the crater Sinus Iridium (Bay of Rainbows) , making the Asian country in the third, after the U.S. and the USSR to achieve a controlled landing on the moon 37 years and four months after the previous.
previous controlled landing of a ship was the 24 Soviet Moon probe of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the August 18, 1976.
E3
Chang, launched from Xichang Air Base (northwest) on 2 December and orbiting at a speed of 1.7 kilometers per second, when it began to decelerate was within 15 kilometers of the lunar surface and successfully landed on the moon at 21:12 pm today (13:12 GMT).
maneuver, which was broadcast live on several channels of Chinese state television CCTV, lasted 12 minutes, in which the device down to describing a parabola which stood about 100 meters of the lunar surface, at who planned to land softly, barely looking up lunar dust.
During his approach to the Moon, Chang E3 (named after a goddess who according to Chinese legends live on the moon) gave very clear images of the lunar surface, helped by the absence of atmosphere and be on the light side of the earth satellite. The managers of the Chinese space program chose Sinus Iridium because of its flat surface, which will facilitate the development of communications and space robot receives enough sunlight for your batteries, as it is an area of ??the moon still unexplored.
few minutes after landing on the Moon, Chang E3 deployed solar panels in order to accumulate the energy required to, within hours, to deploy the mobile robot selenite surface Yutu (Jade Rabbit).
If this second maneuver is successful, China will mark another milestone, as the only country that has so far deployed mobile robots on the moon was also the USSR, and the last time I got it was 40 years ago, with the Lunokhod 2 (1973).
China, on the other hand achieves today the first alien landing in its history, launched its first lunar probe, the E1 Chang in 2007, and the second, the Chang E2, in 2010.
The country seeks long-term carrying astronauts to Earth’s satellite , and although there is still no date set for this is expected to be around 2020, a period in which China is also expected to have a base permanent space orbiting the Earth.
No comments:
Post a Comment