INCREDIBLE images from China's Chang’e 6 lander, which landed on the far side of the moon late on June 1 and lifted off in an ascent vehicle with the first lunar samples from the far side of the moon yesterday.
Image credit: CNSA
@skrishna That's impressive. Is the colour accurate on those photos? I guess for some reason I always assumed lunar regolith was neutral and gray, here it looks quite saturated and almost the colour of wet sand.
@LonM I'm pretty sure it's color accurate! The moon does have some color surface features, plus when the angle of the sun hits just right it looks more brown than gray.
@LonM To clarify: I'm guessing because it's hard to get info out of the Chinese Space Agency, as you can imagine, but I will dig to see what I can find!