China releases first photos taken on the moon's hidden side

After successfully landing a probe on the moon's hidden side, the National Space Administration of China released on Sunday (6) high resolution photos of the hitherto unexplored region of our planet. They show the Yutu 2 rover and the Chang'e-4 spacecraft analyzing the local terrain.

One of the aims of the Chinese mission is to examine the lunar South Pole. Scientists now believe that this site is a crater formed by the collision with another object billions of years ago. The probes are expected to be able to gather information to calculate the date of this and possibly reveal news about the formation of our solar system.

Although it is popularly known as the Moon's hidden side or the dark side of the Moon, this region is not necessarily in the dark all the time. This fame came more from the fact that it is the side that never faces the Earth, which makes it difficult to explore the region, since there is a lot of interference from the communication signals sent there.

To solve this problem, China sent as part of the mission a satellite that is responsible for bridging the ground command base with the objects that are on the star's surface. SOURCE (S) SPACE