China releases to the public some of the datasets from the Chang’e-5 lunar mission
China announced today that it has made available to the public the data from some of the instruments that flew on its November 2020 Chang’e-5 sample return lunar mission.
The instruments involved were the mission’s landing camera, panoramic camera, lunar mineralogical spectrometer, and regolith penetrating radar.
The data is supposedly available here, but you have to be able to read Chinese to find it.
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China announced today that it has made available to the public the data from some of the instruments that flew on its November 2020 Chang’e-5 sample return lunar mission.
The instruments involved were the mission’s landing camera, panoramic camera, lunar mineralogical spectrometer, and regolith penetrating radar.
The data is supposedly available here, but you have to be able to read Chinese to find it.
In order to remain completely independent and honest in my writing, I accept no sponsorships from big space companies or any political organizations. Nor do I depend on ads.
Instead, I rely entirely on the generosity of readers to keep Behind the Black running. You can either make a one time donation for whatever amount you wish, or you sign up for a monthly subscription ranging from $2 to $15 through Paypal, or $3 to $50 through Patreon, or any amount through Zelle.
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There appear to be English-language pages; for example see
https://moon.bao.ac.cn/ce5web/moonGisMap.search
Accessing the data however appears to require a login. It appears that one can register, but I have not attempted to do so.
We’ve got lots of Mandarin speaking folks who would be happy to translate – and love space science too!