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Lunar farside to be explored by Chang’e-4

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Fig. 1: Distribution of manned and unmanned landings on the Moon to date.
Fig. 2: Landing-site images taken by the Chang’e-4 lander terrain camera and Yutu-2 panoramic camera.

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  1. Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center, Beijing, China

    Weiren Wu

  2. Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Chunlai Li, Wei Zuo, Hongbo Zhang, Jianjun Liu, Weibin Wen, Yan Su, Xin Ren, Jun Yan & Ziyuan Ouyang

  3. China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Beijing, China

    Dengyun Yu

  4. Institute of Tracking and Communication Technology, Beijing, China

    Guangliang Dong

  5. National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Chi Wang

  6. China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing, China

    Zezhou Sun

  7. Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China

    Enhai Liu

  8. Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, China

    Jianfeng Yang

  9. Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, China

    Ziyuan Ouyang

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Wu, W., Li, C., Zuo, W. et al. Lunar farside to be explored by Chang’e-4. Nat. Geosci. 12, 222–223 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0341-7

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