Yutu 2 on the Farside

Originally shared by Astronomy Picture of the Day (APoD)

Yutu 2 on the Farside

Image Credit: Chinese National Space Administration

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190105.html

On January 3, the Chinese Chang’e-4 spacecraft made the first successful landing on the Moon’s farside. Taken by a camera on board the lander, this image is from the landing site inside Von Karman crater. It shows the desksized, six-wheeled Yutu 2 (Jade Rabbit 2) rover as it rolled down lander ramps and across the surface near local sunrise and the start of the two week long lunar day. Ripe for exploration, Von Karman crater itself is 186 kilometers in diameter. It lies within the Moon’s old and deep South Pole-Aitken impact basin with some of the most ancient and least understood lunar terrains. To bridge communications from the normally hidden hemisphere of the Moon, China launched a relay satellite, Queqiao, in May of 2018 in to an orbit beyond the lunar farside.

Hard to give a fuck about Roy Moore, a total bag of shit but this story goes some way to explaining the kind of…

Hard to give a fuck about Roy Moore, a total bag of shit but this story goes some way to explaining the kind of world we now live in. Democracy is a battleground between various rich people trying to distort public perception via social media manipulation. Faking Russian bots is surely the next inevitable level of bullshit.

They also used thousands of Twitter accounts to make it appear as if automated Russian bot accounts were following and supporting Mr. Moore, according to an internal report on the project. The apparent Russian support for Mr. Moore drew broad news media coverage.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/us/reid-hoffman-alabama-election-disinformation.html