Dark Side of the Moon
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https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/china-lands-uncrewed-spacecraft-far-side-moon-2024-06-01/
China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday, overcoming a key hurdle in its landmark mission to retrieve the world's first rock and soil samples from the dark lunar hemisphere.
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Interesting. I imagine the landing was automated.
They can't communicate with it can they?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Interesting. I imagine the landing was automated.
They can't communicate with it can they?
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On the way home?
https://www.space.com/china-chang-e-6-moon-sample-return-transfer-orbiter
China's Chang'e 6 mission continues to make history, having collected the first samples ever retrieved from the far side of the moon and now transferring those samples between spacecraft in orbit. That transfer was necessary for the next step in the samples' journey — returning to Earth.
The successful rendezvous and docking of the Chang'e 6 moon probe's ascender and its orbital module took place at 2:48 p.m. Beijing time (2:48 a.m. ET; 0648 GMT) on Thursday (June 6), according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The safe transfer of the lunar sample container was completed by 3:24 p.m. Beijing time (3:24 p.m. ET; 0724 GMT). This was the second time a CNSA spacecraft had achieved lunar orbit rendezvous and docking, with the previous example being Chang'e 5.
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Preliminary analysis of China's Chang'e 6 samples show what appears to be a high concentration of the Wuhan virus.
@Copper said in Dark Side of the Moon:
Preliminary analysis of China's Chang'e 6 samples show what appears to be a high concentration of the Wuhan virus.
May be the seed for the next conspiracy theory for the next pandemic - alien virus from the Moon, brought back to Earth by Communist China.
