PointOrView's video: NASA s LRO captures China s Chang e-6 in its moon landing site

FIRST LOOK CHANG'E 6: The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) imaged China's Chang'e 6 sample return spacecraft on the lunar far side on June 7th. Chang'e 6 landed on 1 June, 2024, and when LRO passed over the landing site almost a week later, it acquired an image showing the Chang'e 6 lander on the rim of an eroded ~50 meter diameter crater. The LROC team computed the landing site coordinates as 41.6385°S, 206.0148°E, at -5256 meters elevation relative to the average lunar surface, with an estimated horizontal accuracy of plus-or-minus 30 meters.The Chang'e 6 landing site is situated on a mare unit at the southern edge of the Apollo basin (492 km diameter, centered at 36.1°S, 208.3°E). Basaltic lava erupted south of Chaffee S crater approximately 3.1 billion years ago (Ga) and flowed downhill to the east until it encountered a local topographic high, likely related to a fault. Several wrinkle ridges in this region have deformed and raised the mare surface. The landing site sits approximately halfway between two of these ridges. The lava flow also overlaps a slightly older flow (~3.3 Ga), visible further east, but the younger flow is distinctive because it has higher iron oxide (FeO) and titanium oxide (TiO2) abundances.