Leonard David is an award-winning space journalist who has been reporting on space activities for more than 50 years. Currently writing as Space.
This image from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera shows China’s Chang'e 6 lander in the Apollo basin on the lunar far side on June 7, 2024. The lander is seen as the small cluster of bright pixels in the center of the image.NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken its first look at China's Chang'e 6 spacecraft on the moon's far side.
LROC team members also posted an image of the same area taken on March 3, 2022, to show what it looked like before Chang'e 6's landing and to highlight the presence of the spacecraft on the lunar surface. "Several wrinkle ridges in this region have deformed and raised the mare surface," the LROC image description states."The landing site sits approximately halfway between two of these ridges. The lava flow also overlaps a slightly older flow , visible further east, but the younger flow is distinctive because it has higher iron oxide and titanium oxide abundances."
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