Chinese on the darkside?

[ApophisAstros]

Has anyone heard much about the Chinese lander on the darkside of the Moon as i don't seem to have seen it reported on and only one picture of it exiting the lander.
Roger

[RobertM]

I though it had landed in cheese and sunk without trace...

[MarkH]

Nothing new acheived, I can't understand why they did it, muscle flexing I suppose, let's raise an eyebrow when they put men on the moon five decades after the USA.

[ApophisAstros]

"Did they????",
Roger

[MarkS]

Obviously faked.  The images are showing sunlight on the dark side of the moon!  And how can the radio signals get back to earth from the wrong side of the moon?

Mark

[Carole]

Lol.  I wondered that too but I read somewhere that they have a satellite relaying the images/signals.

Carole

[ApophisAstros]

yea they launched  Queqiao, a communications satellite, back in May.
Roger

[The Thing]

I though it had landed in cheese and sunk without trace...

Nah, it got in a pickle

[The Thing]

Nothing new acheived, I can't understand why they did it, muscle flexing I suppose, let's raise an eyebrow when they put men on the moon five decades after the USA.

They are in the deepest crater on the moon having just completed the biggest fixed dish antenna on earth... And away from a radio interference from earth. Of course they won't tell us about the huge mesh net they dropped on the way down. I think they want to talk to the lgm!

[MarkH]

lgm! ????????? What's that?

[The Thing]

lgm! ????????? What's that?

Little green men! Don't you know the history of pulsar discovery. (Slightly obtuse, look it up!)

[MarkH]

Ah yes Duncan I remember now, just didn't link the two.