Daily Archives: 5th January 2019

China lands on the far side of moon – here is the science behind the mission

by The Conversation

By David Rothery, The Open University In a spectacular few days for solar system exploration – during which NASA whizzed the New Horizons spacecraft past the Kuiper Belt object 2009 MU69 (somewhat controversially nicknamed “Ultima Thule”) and eased OSIRIS-REx into orbit about the asteroid Bennu – the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) has set its […]