Spectacular photographs of the hidden face of the Moon

After almost a year of exploration, the China Lunar Exploration Program recently posted new photographs, in high resolution, on the hidden face of the Moon.

These were achieved thanks to the terrain camera of the landing module and the panoramic camera of the Yutu-2 rover.

Oh – this is so pretty. pic.twitter.com/lxkfBnKbAO

– Doug Ellison (@doug_ellison) January 4, 2020

The images, among other data, have been posted publicly. Doug Ellison, chief engineer of the Curiosity camera team, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the POT, he took the spectacular photographs and published them on his Twitter account, as well as on his website.

Slowly downloading the several thousand frames from the Chang’e 4 Landing Camera (LCAM). I’m especially fond of this as it’s 1024 x 1024 and greyscale (same as MSL / MER ECAM) This is in approx real time playing back at 10 fps of the first 1000 or so. Thousands more to go. pic.twitter.com/zLTawDvvWX

– Doug Ellison (@doug_ellison) January 20, 2020

In the pictures Close-ups of craters and moon dust can be seen in the Von Karman crater. Also included are several postcards of the landing module, the horizon and the footprints of the robot.

The first 6 images from the rover panoramic camera. These are actually color – need to debayer them. Will reply down this thread. Data : https://t.co/5zHvzrlbep. pic.twitter.com/vT97gWgZwH

– Doug Ellison (@doug_ellison) January 4, 2020

Also the account of Twitter Techniques Spatiales, He took the files and uploaded them to a drive, so that anyone can work with them.

The hidden face of the Moon is one that cannot be observed from Earth because it takes to rotate on itself the same as its translational movement around the Earth.

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