Lunar findings will be shared
Left part of the combo photo shows the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe taken by the rover Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) on January 11, 2019, and right part shows the rover Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) taken by the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe on January 11, 2019.
China will gradually open data collected by the Chang’e-4 lunar probe to the world, the country’s lunar program chief designer said.
Wu Weiren, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, made the statement in his capacity as a CPPCC member on the sidelines of its annual session on Sunday.
The Chang’e-4 probe made the first-ever soft landing on the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon on January 3.
Wu said both the lander and the rover have been woken up from a “sleep mode” and are now collecting new data.
Wu added that China plans to launch the Chang’e-5 probe later this year to collect and bring back samples from the moon, and to launch a probe in 2020 to orbit, land and rove on Mars.
