Chang'e-6 is already orbiting the moon, and there is still some time before landing sampling, and the lander and ascender combination will not separate from the orbiter until June 1. Chang'e-6 was still early in sampling, but unexpectedly sparked a discussion about whether the American Apollo moon landing was fake.
It is not new to question the fraud of the US moon landing, but this time skeptics have found two new evidence, the first is that during the live broadcast of the Chang'e-6 launch, Pei Mingming, deputy chief engineer of the third phase of the lunar exploration project invited by CCTV, said: "I didn't find the ...... in the Apollo Basin."
This should be said by Mr. Pei to the person next to him during the dialogue, the specific intention is unknown, but it was interpreted by a large number of netizens as "Chang'e-6 did not find the basin where Apollo landed on the moon", and it was widely spread, and for a time it was concluded that the American moon landing was fake A large number of articles and comments appeared, which was eye-opening.
According to the understanding of fraudsters, Deputy Chief Engineer Pei means that our probe did not find the landing site of the Apollo spacecraft on the moon (that basin), if this is true, then it is the bottom of the kettle! The United States has indeed come up with a lot of videos and pictures before, and the actual Saturn V rocket can also be seen, and people can only look for all kinds of clues that are inconsistent with common sense and physical laws to prove that "the moon landing was filmed in a Hollywood studio."
But this job is really difficult to do, and many photos that are considered to be buggy generally prove their justification in the end, and highlight the poor level of physics of the doubters.
Well, now that Deputy Chief Pei has no problem with his authority, he said that he didn't find Apollo's landing site, so what else do you need to explain? The American manned moon landing must be fake! However, if Deputy Chief Engineer Pei himself knew this magical conclusion, he would probably cry and laugh, because this could not be Mr. Pei's original intention. The most critical point of this incredible thing is where is the "Apollo Basin" and what is its relationship with the Apollo moon landing?
Proponents of fraud take it for granted that the Apollo Basin is the basin where Apollo landed on the moon. This conclusion is actually 108,000 miles wrong, and the two actually have nothing to do with each other. The Apollo Basin is a crater on the far side of the Moon, with a diameter of 482 kilometers. What is special about it is that it is a "basin within a basin", and the large basin where the Apollo Basin is located is the "Antarctic-Aitken" basin where Chang'e-6 will land and Chang'e-4 will already land.
The Antarctica-Aitken Basin is also a crater, and the largest in the solar system, with a diameter of nearly 2,500 kilometers and a depth of more than 12 kilometers, which is deeper than the Mariana Trench. Its area reaches 4.9 million square kilometers, which is equivalent to half the area of the mainland territory. Such a large crater must have been hit by a rather large asteroid, which directly penetrated the lunar crust with its huge kinetic energy, entered the interior of the moon, and turned the deep material in the lunar mantle to the surface, giving us a chance to explore the internal composition of the moon.
That's why our Chang'e-4 and Chang'e-6 have landed here, not only because the interior of the basin is relatively flat, but also because it holds information about the internal composition of the Moon. And the Apollo Basin that Deputy Chief Pei mentioned is even more magical. After the first asteroid crashed out of the huge Aitken Basin, another smaller asteroid crashed into the inner edge of the Aitken Basin, forming a second basin, the Apollo Basin.
This asteroid is also enough to break through the rocky layers of the lunar crust and stir up the material inside the moon again. As a result, it is possible that this "basin within a basin" will hold more material from the Moon's interior, and if a spacecraft can land here, the samples obtained will be of considerable value. Therefore, the pre-selected landing area of Chang'e-6 reported on the Internet also covers part of the Apollo Basin. Therefore, this Apollo Basin really has a lot to do with Chang'e-6.
As for the American Apollo 11 spacecraft in 1969, the landing position was not here at all, but in the southern part of the "Silent Sea" on the front side of the moon. In fact, the next five Apollo spacecraft all landed on the front side of the moon, so it is impossible for them to have a relationship with the Apollo Basin. The Sea of Tranquility is a relatively flat area on the front side of the Moon, formed by the solidification of lava flows from volcanic eruptions in ancient times. It's normal to think about it, as the first human landing on the moon, I will definitely choose the easiest place to land, and the flat and still sea located on the front side of the moon can just meet this need.
Speaking of which, the arguments of those who made a false attack on the moon have been self-defeating, and they themselves misunderstood Deputy Chief Pei's words, and they still used this as a "Shang Fang sword" to promote it everywhere, which can only be laughed at and generous. In fact, the debate about the truth or falsehood of the Apollo moon landing is not only at home, but also abroad. After the launch of Chang'e-6, foreign netizens also came to make fun, and some said that they had found the filming location of the "Hollywood moon landing".
I saw a foreigner shouting excitedly in the desert: "Mom, look! I'm on the moon, and there's oxygen ......". This video has also been used as evidence by many people in China, according to which the Apollo moon landing in the United States was filmed by Hollywood, but not in the studio, but in this place that looks very much like the moon. At first glance, this place really looks like the surface of the moon, and the soil and stones on the ground are also very similar to the lunar soil and moon rocks, but there are blue skies and white clouds, indicating that it is still on the earth.
Could this video really show that the moon landing was fake? Don't worry, in the Apollo program, simulation tests were indeed done on the ground. In order to verify whether astronauts can move safely on the lunar surface and the availability of various equipment such as spacesuits and lunar rover, NASA has found more than one location on Earth to simulate the environment on the lunar surface, one of which is Cinder Lake in Arizona, USA.
Located 12 miles from Flagstaff, there was a volcanic eruption about 1,000 years ago that caused basalt ash to blanket the entire area. It just so happened that the surface of the Apollo 11 moon landing site was basalt, so it became a simulation base for Apollo 11 researchers and later Apollo astronauts. In order to be more realistic, craters were blown up with explosives.
So don't be surprised to see photos of moon-landing astronauts walking under the blue skies and white clouds of Earth in thick extravehicular suits, or of a lunar rover running through Earth's deserts, which are all simulations of testing and training. This was true of the Apollo moon landing, and the same is true of the "Artemis" manned moon landing program that the United States is now engaged in, and the mainland's manned moon landing will not be an exception. It makes no sense to take this kind of photograph, or the environment that resembles the moon, as the basis for the Apollo moon landing to fake.
In addition to these, the launch of Chang'e-6 also provided some skeptics with another "proof" that Chang'e-6 took 53 days to complete the entire sample return process, but Apollo 11, more than 50 years ago, only took 8 days from launch to return. Therefore, these people believe that if the lunar exploration process of the mainland is real, it means that the time to go to the moon cannot be so short, and it can show that the Apollo moon landing is a fraud.
It is also easy to refute this view, because the places where Chang'e-6 is going and what it is going to do are completely different from the Apollo spacecraft, and they cannot be directly compared at all. The command module (return), service module and lunar module of the Apollo lunar spacecraft weighed 46 tons, and it was necessary to use the Saturn V giant rocket with a take-off weight of more than 3,000 tons to send it into the Earth-Moon transfer orbit.
The Apollo spacecraft is so big because it is meant to carry people, and only to carry people, and there are not many other scientific payloads. After its launch on July 16, 1969, the spacecraft entered a circumlunar orbit after more than three days of near-moon braking, and after only one day around the moon, the lunar module separated from the command/service module, and then landed soon in the still sea area.
The U.S. astronauts also spent a relatively short time on the lunar surface, only a dozen hours in total, including only two and a half hours outside the capsule, and then returned to the orbit around the moon in the ascent module and re-docked with the command module. The astronauts entered the command module and returned to Earth, where they splashed down at sea on July 24, a process that lasted eight days.
Compared to Apollo 11, the Chang'e-6 mission is much more complex, first of all, the orbital parameters and time window are different, which makes Chang'e-6 not enter the circumlunar orbit until 5 days after launch. The most critical difference is that Chang'e-6 landed on the far side of the moon, which is always facing away from the Earth and cannot communicate directly with the ground station, so it must rely on the help of the Queqiao-2 relay satellite.
The orbit of Queqiao-2 is a large-dip elliptical circumlunar orbit, the perilunar point is in the high latitude region of the northern hemisphere of the moon, and the apogee point is in the high latitude region of the southern hemisphere, so only when Queqiao-2 runs in a part of the arc centered on the apogee point, can it serve the landing of Chang'e-6, which causes constraints and restrictions on the landing time.
In addition, Chang'e-6 must land and complete sampling during the day on the moon, the moon's rotation period is 1 month, and the moon day and moon night are both 14 days, so Chang'e-6 will not be able to start descent and land until the landing area is daytime, which forms a huge limitation of the time window, resulting in more than 20 days around the moon before landing, much more than the Apollo spacecraft.
After landing, Chang'e-6 will spend 48 hours on the lunar surface to complete unmanned sampling, longer than the Apollo spacecraft. After the sample module returns to space with the ascender and docks with the orbiter, it will have to orbit the moon for more than ten days before the time window can return to Earth. In addition to these, Chang'e-6 itself also carries a large number of scientific payloads, which will need to release Pakistan's CubeSat, and many observation missions will be completed, and the mission time will be extended.
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Considering that Chang'e-6 is an unmanned probe, all kinds of docking operations must be completed automatically, and it is not as fast as the manual docking of the Apollo spacecraft.
The combination of these factors has resulted in a situation where the total duration of the Chang'e-6 mission is as long as 53 days, and the sample module will return to the surface on June 25. This is due to the special nature of the Chang'e-6 mission, and it does not mean that the Apollo moon landing was a fake.
In fact, more than one country's spacecraft have already photographed the remains of previous Apollo missions, taking the above photo as an example, in addition to the lunar module, the ruts of the lunar rover are also clearly visible.