Agnostic.com
  1. Agnostic
  2. Posts
  3. Academic (e.g., Science)

3 4

This may be a dumb question but I’m a bit of a dunce when it comes to sciency stuff. I am sure Astrochuck will know the answer!!!!

As the Chinese craft has landed on the dark side of the moon and you can’t get signals back to Earth from there, how are they sending pictures back ?. My best guess is that they shoot them off to an orbiter or something which sends them Earthwards when in position to do so. Probably way off and more complicated that it is in real lI’ve. If anyone knows please enlighten ?

#chinese #earth #moon
Geoffrey51 8 Jan 4
Share
Submit

Enjoy being online again!

Welcome to the community of good people who base their values on evidence and appreciate civil discourse - the social network you will enjoy.

Create your free account

3 comments

Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.

4

Level 7

The Chinese put a satellite in the L2 (Lagrange point #2) back in Oct - Nov 2018. That satellite is communicating with the lander on the far side of the moon. Note: the far side of the moon receives as much sunlight as the near side of the moon.

3

Level 8

You use your mind to figure out how a problem can be solved and you got it right. No wonder you are here on this site and not a sheeple believing whatever the theists wants.???

6

Level 9

You have guessed correctly. They put a satellite into orbit around the moon, and it relays signals back to mother Earth.

From the NYT article:
"To overcome the challenge of communicating from the moon’s far side, China had previously launched a satellite called Queqiao, or Magpie Bridge. It now orbits beyond the moon to act as a relay for transmissions to and from the mission control center on the northwestern outskirts of Beijing."

[nytimes.com]

Thanks for that. It was giving me a headache trying to get my head around it.

Enjoy being online again!

Welcome to the community of good people who base their values on evidence and appreciate civil discourse - the social network you will enjoy.

Create your free account

Share this post

Copy Link

Categories

You can include a link to this post in your posts and comments by including the text q:258375
Agnostic does not evaluate or guarantee the accuracy of any content. Read full disclaimer.