The moon is calm most of the time, unless some meteorite hits it, or humans "throw" something, only these things will break the calm on the moon.

For example, today, someone was racing too fast, and Mt. Akinayama couldn't fit it, so he soared directly to the moon.

The Aristarchus crater is located on the Aristarches plateau, in the lunar sea known as the "Storm Ocean", and this is where Chang'e-5 landed this time, in a clearing next to the Aristarchus crater.

The reason for choosing this place is that the Aristarchus crater is located to the east of the Herodotus crater and the Schroetree Valley, and to the north is a series of winding and narrow Aristarchus Creeks.

It has typical landforms on the moon, including terraces, craters, and a Charlotte Canyon that spans 160 kilometers on the platform, which is very valuable for research, and it can be said that basically all the geological phenomena on the moon can be understood in this place.

This is very beneficial to China, which has low aerospace technology at this stage, cannot stay on the moon for a long time, and is inconvenient to move on the moon.

It is also the youngest of all lunar craters, so the solar wind has not yet completely weathered the material carved out by the impact, so the mineral layers exposed at the bottom of the 3.2-kilometer-deep Aristarchus crater provide scientists with a unique opportunity to study the diversity of rocks and geological processes on the moon.

One of the Chang'e-5 missions this time has pit bottom sampling, and if the actual conditions allow, then this lunar mission can bring back lunar rock samples at a depth of 3 kilometers on the moon.

In addition, the albedo of this crater is nearly twice that of other topographic features on the lunar surface, almost visible to the naked eye, and the intensity of reflected light under large telescopes is even more dazzling, and it is considered one of the most conspicuous large surface landmarks on the lunar surface. Even when most of the Moon's surface is illuminated, the Aristarchus crater can be identified without difficulty.

This extremely high albedo and recognition will also make it often break out some UFO incidents, so in line with a realistic attitude, since Huaguo has the ability to come up, then when doing scientific research, it is necessary to make this clear by the way.

And...... This is the landing site of the 2020 return to the moon plan formulated by the United States.

Of course, of course, in fact, this area is still very large, and the lunar spacecraft of the Mi people will not coincide with the exploration site of China at all after it comes.

With the current technology of the earth, even if dozens of lunar landing ships are sent, it will not be able to complete the exploration, so Huaguo is not not giving face to the United States, but simply feels that it is very cost-effective to land here.

And the United States chose this place as the landing site to return to the moon, and it must think so, which is a typical "eagle and rabbit see the same".

Well, that's it.

At this time, a rudimentary lunar rover was driving at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour under the guidance of Ye Peng, and the lunar soil dust carried by the wheels flew out and fell quickly, and there was no scene of smoke and dust billowing behind the car in this dusty place.

Looking in the direction from which the car came, the long rut marks were also clearly visible.

Although a speed of 20 kilometers per hour is not worth mentioning on the earth, let alone any high speed, but considering the complex terrain on the moon, even such a speed is considered to be very fast on the moon.

And this speed can only be reached on a relatively flat lunar surface, and it will be reduced even more in places where the terrain is undulating or the terrain is complicated.

"Suck ...... Call...... Suck...... Whew......"

It's very quiet here, even the lunar rover they drive is an electric car, and it's also a very quiet existence, and the loudest sound they can hear is the sound of each other's breathing coming from the intercom system.

The simple bracket at the front of the car is equipped with a dashboard, and Ye Peng is the driver, and he displays data such as speed, direction, slope, power and temperature.

On Wang Ping's side, there is a ten-inch display screen, which is the on-board map of the car, and on the top is a clear map of the moon and the markers of their mission location.

In this regard, the navigation system of the manned lunar rover during the Apollo period was completely exploded.

"Ye Peng, you can stop at the big rock in front, that's where our mission is this time." Wang Ping looked at the mission map and said.

"Understood, Commander," Ye Peng replied and slowly lowered the speed of the car.

"Sun Wei, this is the Chang'e-5 lunar rover, is there no problem on the track?" Wang Ping asked again.

"No problem, everything is fine, Commander." Sun Wei, who circled in lunar orbit, said.

They are busy on the lunar surface here, and Sun Wei is not idle in the orbit around the moon, although he cannot participate in the field survey of the lunar surface, but there are also a lot of experiments to be done in the orbit around the moon.

Many of the scientific instruments carried by Shenzhou-13 were prepared for him, and at the same time, he also had to ensure the normal operation of the spacecraft in lunar orbit and ensure that the Chang'e-5 lunar module could successfully dock when it returned.

"Commander, it's time for the mission." Ye Peng slowly stopped the driveway.

"Well," Wang Ping said as she got out of the car, "you go and plug in the permanent probe, and I'll collect the moon rocks, and we'll have an hour." ”

"Then we're going to go to the crater and see if the path that the lunar probe found can work, and if so, we'll do the pit bottom sampling mission tomorrow."

"Okay, no problem, one hour is enough." Ye Peng agreed.

Ye Peng and Wang Ping jumped to the back of the car, there was a reserve box here, and everything they needed was here.

Ye Peng took out the detection equipment to be arranged and went to the location of the arrangement, while Wang Ping took the sampling equipment and went to the large piece of moon rock exposed outside the lunar soil.

Both of them move very quickly, and although they are bound by spacesuits, these things that are not very difficult are still difficult for them.

Relatively speaking, Wang Ping's work is a little more, and the moon rock needs to be cut with a chainsaw, otherwise such a large piece can not be taken away, and the cut moon rock must be put into the corresponding bag, and then put it in a special storage box.

So Ye Peng came to help Wang Ping after fixing the equipment, turning on its own solar panels, and debugging the operating data.

“…… Okay, the last piece is also loaded, let's go to the crater. ”

"Okay, I'll put the stone back in the car......"

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Chang'e-5 stayed on the moon for a total of five days, collected a total of 278 kilograms of lunar rock, and carried out various scientific research activities, which can be said to have successfully completed the mission.

And it has broken many of the previous records set during the Apollo moon landing, and improved the new record a lot.

If the United States wants to overtake it again, then it has to work hard.

When they left the moon, they left the lunar rover and landing bracket on the moon in order to reduce weight, and abandoned the Chang'e-5 lunar return module in lunar orbit, if nothing else, this "Chang'e" will eventually return to the moon.

After more than 60 hours of flight, they smoothly returned to Earth and landed on the predetermined sea surface, and the nuclear-powered electromagnetic catapult aircraft carrier "Capital," which had been waiting there for a long time, quickly dispatched helicopters to pick them up and take them back to the ship.

So far, China's first manned mission to the moon has been a complete success.