China News Service, January 8th. According to the official Weibo news of China's lunar exploration project, Chang'e 4 ushered in its 26th day. The "Yutu 2" lunar rover awakened at 10:29 on January 7 and the lander Woke up at 03:13 on January 8.

As of today, Chang'e-4 has been in operation for 736 Earth days, continuing to refresh the record of human probes working on the back of the moon.

  According to the news, during the day of this month, the lunar rover will continue to travel to the basalt distribution area or the impact crater area with high reflectivity (approximately 27m from the current detection point, and there is a degraded impact crater with a diameter of approximately 160m in the south of the crater). Both positions are located in the northwest direction of the current detection point.

The closest crater with higher reflectivity (purple circled area), the dashed red circle is the degenerate crater.

It is reported that the following detection activities are planned during the day of this month:

  (1) It is preferable to perform a panoramic camera circle shooting at close to noon of the moon.

  (2) Detection and calibration of infrared imaging spectrometer.

  (3) The neutral atom detector is turned on for detection.

  (4) Synchronous detection of lunar radar during driving.

The scientific research team will continue to conduct scientific analysis on the acquired detection data, and relevant results will be released in time.

The nearest basalt distribution area (red line area)