Astronomy: space conquest and the latest news from the stars

[moinsdewatt]

No more. Deceptive photomontage.

almost a third of the time the moon is not visible at night, simply because the moon is on the sunlit side.
It is also at this time that we see the crescent Moon during the day. Not at night. At no time of the night.
Look a little away from your feet.



later namely 28/2 days later we can only see the moon at night. And this is where we see the almost full crescent moon, the full moon and the slightly waning moon.

[moinsdewatt]

China is preparing to land its unmanned robot on Mars

AFP • 14 / 05 / 2021

In the midst of diplomatic and technological rivalry with the United States, the Asian giant launched the "Tianwen-1" probe towards Mars last July.

The machine took seven months to cover the 55 million kilometers that separated it from the red planet - that is, 1.400 times around the world.

The probe, which arrived in Mars orbit in February, is made up of three elements, including a lander which should land in the coming hours.

The module must allow a remote-controlled robot, "Zhurong" (the god of fire in Chinese mythology), to come out to analyze the surface.

No precise schedule has been communicated from an official source. The Chinese space agency (CNSA) had simply mentioned a possible window between mid-May and mid-June.

But speculation was lively on Friday after the announcement by a prominent space flight specialist that the unmanned robot would hit Mars on Saturday morning.

Ye Peijian, chief of the lunar exploration program, expects the module to land at 7:11 a.m. on Saturday Beijing time (23:11 p.m. GMT Friday), according to comments reported by media on Friday and held at a conference the day before.

"Zhurong" is supposed to be operational for three months.

In the event of a successful landing, it should make it possible to study the environment of Mars and analyze the composition of the rocks.



Landing on the Red Planet is particularly complicated, and several European, Soviet and American missions have failed in the past.

The "Tianwen-1" mission sent its first image of Mars in February: a black and white photo showing landforms like the Schiaparelli crater and the Valles Marineris canyon system.

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[Christophe]

Chinese rover Zhurong successfully landed on Mars

In recent years, the Chinese space program has grown rapidly, reaching several important milestones in the field of space exploration. This morning, the Chinese rover Zhurong successfully landed on Martian soil. This great technological milestone puts the country among the few nations - including the United States and Russia - to have ever reached the Red Planet.

Chinese rover Zhurong landed on Mars this morning, state media reported, a triumph for Beijing's increasingly daring space ambitions and a historic feat for a nation on its first-ever Martian mission.

The lander carrying Zhurong completed the descent through the Martian atmosphere using a parachute to face the "Seven Minutes of Terror," as they are called, aimed at a vast northern lava plain known as Utopia Planitia. .

The start of Martian exploration for the Zhurong rover

[moinsdewatt]

Mars: Chinese rover "Zhurong" begins exploration of the red planet

GN with AFP May 22, 2021

China is the second country in the world to achieve such a feat

The Chinese unmanned robot "Zhurong" left its landing platform on Mars on Saturday, a week after its arrival, to begin exploring the surface of the red planet, the official China news agency reported. The sending of this robot to Mars is a first for the Asian country, which has become the second in the world to succeed in such an operation after the United States.


© / AP / SIPA An artist's impression of the Chinese rover "Zhurong" leaving to explore the planet Mars.
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[Christophe]

Bezos is even more nutty than Musk ... and if he wants 3000 geniuses, he would have to start treating his own employees well ...

[Christophe]

Bezos VS Musk:

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[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

Butthead vs Butthead

[Christophe]

It is not false !

[Christophe]

The Chinese space agency has just published an image showing a strange structure: a "cube", spotted on the far side of the Moon by the Yutu 2 rover, from the Chang'e 4 mission.

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

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