For the first time in Korea, the lunar surface has been photographed from the moon.
On the 13th, the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute released pictures taken by Danuri on the moon during the one-month test run period.
In particular, Danuri photographed the Earth once a day from January 6th to February 4th and observed the phase change of the Earth when viewed from the Moon.
After entering the lunar mission orbit on December 27 last year, Danuri carried out a trial run for regarding a month from January 2 to the 3 of this year.
During the trial operation period, Danuri succeeded in photographing the lunar surface with a high-resolution camera on the lunar mission orbit regarding 100 km above the moon.
During this period, Danuri changed to an operation mode optimized for mission performance (Earth-lunar navigation mode → mission operation mode) and inspected the performance of main body components and payload.
The mission operation mode is to change the mode so that the fixed solar panel faces the sun and the payload always faces the moon during Earth-Moon navigation.
After changing to the mission operation mode, the performance and safety of the main body of Danuri were confirmed, and performance and data transmission were confirmed to be good in the process of verifying the performance of the payload.
On the other hand, Danuri confirmed the normal operation of the main body and payload during the trial run operation process for a month, ended the trial run operation, and started normal mission operation from the 4th.
By the end of this year, six payloads will carry out science and technology missions such as lunar scientific research and space internet technology verification, such as observation of lunar surface polarization images and observation of magnetic field and radiation.
Inquiries: New Space Policy Team (044-202-4642), Korea Aerospace Research Institute (042-860-2748), Massive Public Research Policy Bureau, Ministry of Science and ICT
