China's Chang'e 4 Moon Probe Continues Third Year of Work at Lunar South Pole

China's Chang'e 4 Moon Probe Continues Third Year of Work at Lunar South Pole

The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe were again switched to dormant mode on July 6, 2022, for the lunar night after working stably for a 44th lunar day. The lander was switched to dormant mode at 06:00 on July 6 (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2, at 19:14 on July 5. The lunar rover has traveled 1,239.88 meters on the far side of the moon. The Chang'e-4 probe, launched on December 8, 2018, 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 Jan 3, 2019. The Chang'e-4 lander and the rover Yutu-2 have been working for more than three years on the far side of the moon, collecting over 3,800 Gigabyte of scientific data.

The previous Chang'e 3 Mission, the first Chinese landing on the Moon in 2013, was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976.

Credit: China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: July 7, 2022

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