China’s Chang’e 5 probe sees Earth from Lagrange point
Image: OGTN
China’s Chang’e 5 spacecraft completed a historic delivery of moon rocks to Earth late last year, but the mission is still continuing with experiments in deep space.
In December, the Chang’e 5 orbiter delivered a return capsule to Earth packed with about 4.4 lbs. (2 kilograms) of lunar material — the first such delivery in decades.
After the delivery, the orbiter module fired its engines to head for a point in space known as Sun-Earth Lagrange point 1, which is about 932,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) away from Earth in the direction of the sun. From orbit around this gravitationally balanced area, the spacecraft has returned a unique image of the Earth and moon together.
Image: CNSA / CLEP
Chang’e 5 is now carrying out a range of tests related to orbit control and Earth and solar observations which would help inform future missions.
The current Chang’e 5 operations are bonus work for an already hugely successful mission, so its imagers are not optimized for detailed observations from deep space.
Meanwhile NASA’s DSCOVR deep-space observatory has been working in this same region of space since 2015, taking advantage of unhindered views of our planet to study the Earth’s climate.
The current Chang’e 5 operations are bonus work for an already hugely successful mission, so its imagers are not optimized for detailed observations from deep space.
The Sun seen from the L1 Largange point. Image: CNSA / CLEP
Meanwhile NASA’s DSCOVR deep-space observatory has been working in this same region of space since 2015, taking advantage of unhindered views of our planet to study the Earth’s climate.
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itsme
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why haven’t they shown a closer view of the moon and earth?
why do we have to look at crappy blobs in space, could be anything. could be two blokes running in a field at night with torches for all i know.
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Itsme:
Yeah, a real deep space photo. Probably Chinese astronauts Ying Yang and Yang Ying celebrating
“hugely successful” fake mission, like when ass tronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stuck the cellophane picture of a distant earth in the window of the capsule to be videoed as they were in low earth orbit “to the moon.” Whistleblower sent video to moon landing denier Bart Sibrel. video of actual deception taking place in video below.
Years ago a museum in one of the nordic countries (forgot which one) had been given some of the “moon rocks” from Jewmerica, Of course later it was disclosed they had actually come from a meteorite that struck earth.
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Itsme:
Being a stupid ass I forgot to post video on comment to Itsme.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/obNWzGugdzO3/
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