Chang'e-4 lander and "Yutu-2" lunar rover successfully completed the fifteenth lunar day scientific exploration work and entered the fifteenth lunar night.
The Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration announced the information on Monday, adding the Chang'e-4 lander completed the lunar night setup at 4 o'clock today and entered the fifteenth lunar night dormancy period.
At 20: 6 on March 1, the "Yutu-2" lunar rover successfully completed the scientific exploration of the fifteenth lunar day and went to sleep in lunar night.
According to the China Lunar Exploration Project, during the fifteenth lunar day, the lunar rover moved according to the planned path of the exploration, and the payload startup detection was organized as planned. The infrared imaging spectrometer carried out in-situ detection of the target mineral components on the lunar surface of the inspection area.
Its panoramic camera performs three-dimensional optical imaging of the lunar surface; neutral atom detectors measure the energy flux and composition of neutral atoms; and the lunar survey radar surveys the subsurface, lunar and shallow layers of the moon on the inspection route Structure detection.
The cumulative mileage of the "Yutu-2" lunar rover is about to exceed 400 meters and currently reaches 399.788 meters.
The Chang'e-4 lander and "Yutu-2" lunar rover woke up at 6:57 am on February 18 and 17:55 on February 17, respectively to enter the fifteenth lunar day work period.
