Comments on: Yutu-2 and Chang’e-4 complete 16h lunar day on Moon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/yutu-2-and-change-4-complete-16h-lunar-day-on-moon/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 18:02:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Gealon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/yutu-2-and-change-4-complete-16h-lunar-day-on-moon/#comment-1078343 Wed, 01 Apr 2020 18:02:16 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=64630#comment-1078343 88 feet…. over the period of about two weeks? Now that just seems glacially slow compared to the 100+ feet per Sol Opportunity was doing during her marathon run on Mars. I will admit I haven’t followed the Chinese program with anything resembling interest but now I have to ask, are they stopping at every pebble along the way? Last I checked, the Moon was a lot closer than Mars and they have a satellite bouncing communications to the space craft, so what could possibly be the bottleneck in getting the rover where they want to go? Even the two Lunakhods were cruising around up there with more alacrity than molasses trying to flow up hill.

Completely unscientific I know, but I would like to see a race between the various rovers. I’d wager even little Sojourner could outpace Yutu, provided Pathfinder’s batteries don’t prematurely die in the middle of the race.

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