That means that this is the longest-lasting unmanned lunar surface mission. Congratulations to China!
Quote from: Phillip Clark on 12/13/2014 06:04 pmThat means that this is the longest-lasting unmanned lunar surface mission. Congratulations to China!..are you saying that a manned mission has lasted longer ? Apollo retroreflectors!
CE-3 began to descent from the lunar orbit at an altitude of around 15 km, and when it was about 2 km above the lunar surface, the descent camera fixed at the bottom of CE-3 started to take images. During the descending phase, hovering and obstacle avoidance and landing phase (see Figure 4), CE-3descent camera acquired totally 4,672 images with a resolution higher than 1 m within an area of 1*1 km and as high as 0.1 m within a range of 50 m from the landing point (Liu et al. 2014).
CE-3 is pretty much alive and just went into hibernation for the 14th timehttp://www.sastind.gov.cn/n112/n117/c467119/content.html