After dropping a capsule with lunar soil samples over China, the orbital probe of the Chang’e 5 mission was sent to the L1 Lagrange point from us in the direction of the Sun, since it had enough fuel left to perform various additional experiments and observations. Since March, the probe has been located about 1.5 million km from the Earth. From there, the device sent several pictures, writes Space.com.
They were posted on the China National Space Administration’s sub-site dedicated to the Lunar Program. In one photo, part of the apparatus itself is visible, in the other – the Sun, in the third, the most interesting, the Sun and the Earth, which is painted in a barely noticeable blue color.
Since the mission (which was extremely successful on the whole) was different, the camera for taking pictures from long distances is not the best: the images are “noisy” and indistinct.
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At L1, the Earth-Sun object is never obscured by the Earth or the Moon, and if you are observing the Earth, you are always looking at the sunlit hemisphere.
CNSA does not exclude that later, after the necessary calculations, the probe will be removed from L1 and sent along a flight path to some space object, possibly an asteroid.
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