China broadcasts spacecraft pictures from moon’s far side



The pictures were transmitted by a relay satellite to a control center in Beijing, although it wasn’t immediately clear when they were taken. Officials with the China National Space Administration said they mark a “total success” for the mission in showing the rover moving away from its lander.




The space administration also released a 12-minute video of Chang’e 4′s landing utilizing more than 4,700 images taken by an on-board camera. The probe is shown adjusting its altitude, speed and pitch as it seeks to avoid obstacles on the ground.






  1. jfk says

    They can successfully land a shuttle on the moon yet they can’t produce a product that lasts more than a few weeks before it breaks and gets thrown away …… Hopefully they didn’t use substandard wire or hollow fake batteries or melamine plastic that they export to the US in their toy shuttle and it lasts a bit longer …. I’m not impressed

  2. Dan says

    No proof has been offered that will allow independent verification that the rovers are on the moon. They only have to point a camera up away from the sun to show the stars or the earth but until they do I don’t believe it’s on the moon. Like NASA it’s easy to simulate craters and leave tracks in simulated regolith.

    1. william says

      At least a dozen countries tracked it at various points in its journey. and even if it’s radio signals are encoded we can still detect them. Trust me if they were lying someone would be telling us.

      1. owlafaye says

        Makes sense to me. You would think the same scenario was present when the USA claimed to have landed men on the moon…something sure is fishy there.

    2. Michael G Lewis says

      It’s too costly, and a waste of time and labor, to bother sending any spacecraft to the Moon to “verify” is, because pathological doubters like you would only say that those were false too.

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