NASA recently released a photo that shows China’s Chang’e 4 lander on the far side of the moon. While China’s lunar mission is considered a part of the space race, it is also not the first time that the United States and China shared information and worked together.
NASA Image
NASA recently released a photo taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing the location of China’s Chang’e 4 lander in the Von Kármán crater. The lander, which is around the size of a car, can be seen merely two pixels in length and being pointed at by two white arrows, while the rover cannot be seen in the photograph. Behind the tiny rover is the mountain range that is the west wall of the Von Kármán crater, which is 116 miles (186 kilometers) in diameter.
It is where Chang’e spacecraft made the world’s first soft landing on the far side of the moon on Jan. 3. The crater is named after Theodore von Kármán, who was the lead scientists of United States’ early space program, and was a mentor to the founder of China’s own space program, Hsue-shen Tsien.
