You may remember that it ’s two years since Chinaput its first lunar rover onto the moonshine . What you might not make out , though , is that the lander that took it there also carried a robotic telescope — and now Chinese researchers have draw how well it ’s been work .
New Scientist reportsthat the ultraviolet Christ Within scope — in fact the first ever scope put on the synodic month to be remotely operated from Earth — was carry to the moonaboard Chang’e 3 . While the bird of passage it carried there , Yutu , finally gave up the spook in March 2015 , the scope is still exit impregnable . That ’s partially because it gets stow off in the lander at sunrise and sunset , when abrasive lunar rubble that can damage the legal document gets blister up . Yutu was n’t yield that luxury .
In the first report to detail the telescope ’s performance , Chinese researchers explicate that it ’s been run for 2000 hours and gazed up at 40 virtuoso . It ’s also capture an figure of the Pinwheel galaxy , which is show above . OK , so the images are n’t the snappy astronomic images we might be used to seeing , but it ’s almost impossible to capture a UV image like this from Earth because of our aura . So be grateful for what you get .
New Scientist taper out that the Chinese squad in heraldic bearing of the scope actually anticipate it to last just one year of cognitive operation on the lunar month , yet it continues to work today .
[ arXivviaNew Scientist ]
epitome by Chinese Academy of Sciences / The Bruce Murray Space Image Library / The Planetary Society
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