Now that the Chang’e-4 probe has successfully touched down on the far side of the moon, scientists will be learning whether potatoes and flowers…
Now that the Chang’e-4 probe has successfully touched down on the far side of the moon, scientists will be learning whether potatoes and flowers can be propogated on the lunar surface.
Now that China has successfully made history by landing their Chang’e-4 probe on the dark — or far — side of the moon, there is great cause for excitement, and if all goes according to plan, there may even be flowers growing on the lunar surface in the future.
As Huffington Post reports, Chang’e-4 will now be conducting research on the Von Kármán crater, which is a basin on the moon which stretches to an astonishing 1,550 feet. With the use of a spectrometer, it will also be able to make observations through low-frequency radio, which is only possible on the far side of the moon, by virtue of the fact that it cannot receive any radio noise from Earth.
