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Upcoming Chinese lender will carry insects and plants to the surface of the moon It would be no exaggeration to say that we live in an innovation space exploration. In particular, the moon has become the focal point of attention. In addition to President Trump's recent directive to NASA to return to the moon, many other space agencies and private aerospace companies are planning their own missions to the moon surface. A good example is the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP), otherwise known as the Change Program. Named in honor of the ancient Chinese lunar goddess, this program has already sent two orbiters and one lander to the moon already And later this year, the Change 4 mission will begin, for example, on the path of the moon, where it will study the local geology and test. The mission will comprise a relay orbiter being launched on a long March 5 rocket in June of 2018. This relay will assume an orbit around the Earth-moon L2 Lagrange Point, followed by ...

New Year's Day Full Moon: Are 'Super-moons' Really That Super? On this first day of 2018, at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT), the full moon will arrive at Perigee, its closest point to Earth in a orbit. Today, our lunar companion reached an extreme perigee distance of 221,559 miles (356,565 kilometers). When these events coincide (a full moon at perigee), some people refer to the event as a "super-moon." This will be the "biggest full moon of 2018," and the difference in the moon's apparent size, compared with when it's its average distance from Earth, it is 7.3 percent. But that variation is not easily visible to observers And then there is the other facet: the oft-cited statistic that the perigee full moon is 30 percent bright than a "normal" full moon. But that translates to only a 0.1 or 0.2 magnitude difference in brightness. When the glow of a full moon, the difference is (In fact, most observers can not discern a truly "f...