月球探测的进展与我国的月球探测

月球探测是我国航天活动发展的必然选择，将成为我国航天事业的第 三个里程碑，自20世纪60—70年代的第一次月球探测高潮后，迎来了“重返月球”的又一次 月球探 测热潮，以开发利用月球上丰富的核聚变燃料氦3、矿产和空间环境资源等为最终目标。 我国已经具备了进行月球探测的技术能力，首期工程的科学目标包括获取月球表面三维影像\\r 、分析月球表面有用元素含量和物质类型的分布特点、探测月壤厚度和探测地月空间环境 。

THE PROGRESS OF LUNAR EXPLORATION AND CHINESE LUNAR EXPLORATION PROJECT

Exploring the moon is the first step of the deepspace exploration, necessity of China s space project, and will be the third milestone in Chinese space event, after the launch of the earth orbiter and the manned spaceflight. During the 1960' s and 1970' s, lunar exploration came to its first climax and achieved great success. Now the second climax of the lunar exploration is coming, taking the exploitation and utilization of Helium-3 (a kind of material of nuclear fusion) , mineral and unique space environment resource as an ultimate target. Since the launch of the first satellite DFH-1 in 1970, China has greatly developed in space technology, and now has the ability to send a space probe to the moon, and even other planets. China's first lunar exploration will focus on survey of potential and usable resources of the moon. The main scientific objectives include acquirement of three dimensional atlas of the moon' s surface, analysis of the abundant usable elements, and exploration of the thickness of the lunar regolith and the space environment near the moon.