These great hollow globes of artificial super-metals, and artificial transparent adamant, ranged in size from the earliest and smallest structures, which were no bigger than a very small asteroid, to spheres considerably larger than the Earth. (Olaf Stapledon, STAR MAKER)
Saturday, January 5, 2019
Farside Rabbit
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is the Yutu 2 (Jade Rabbit 2) rover as imaged by the Chang'e-4 lander. China's second successful lunar landing, this one is to the lunar farside in the von Kaman crater at the south lunar pole's Aitken impact basin. Communications are being handled thanks to third vehicle, the Queqiao relay satellite, in lunar orbit.
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