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China's Chang'e 4 moon rover has been snapping new images highlighting the spacecraft's travels and discoveries on the lunar far side. The Chang'e 4 mission, which consists of a lander and a rover ...
China's Chang'e 4 rover, named Yutu 2, rolled onto the floor of the moon's Von Kármán Crater today (Jan. 3), about 12 hours after the mission pulled off history's first-ever soft touchdown on ...
China's Chang'e 4 rover Yutu 2 has been working on the far side of the moon for nearly six years. It was designed to operate for just three lunar days, or about three Earth months.
China's First and Only Moon Rover, Yutu, is Officially Dead. Published: 4 Aug 2016, 18:42 UTC • By: Alex Oagana. 7 photos. Photo: Japan Times. Remember the cute little lunar rover that was ...
China's mysterious "moon cube" is a mystery no longer. The big reveal: It's a rock that's not even shaped like a cube. The nation's Yutu-2 rover discovered the object — which appeared to be a ...
China’s brand new moon rover is already saying farewell. The diminutive lunar explorer, known as Jade Rabbit, or “Yutu” in Chinese, was about halfway through a three-month mission to study ...
More information has come to light regarding the hitchhiking mini-rover on China's Chang'e 6 sample-return mission to the moon's far side.
Yutu rover emblazoned with Chinese flag as seen by the Chang’e-3 lander on the Moon on December 15, 2013. Notice the rover tire tracks left behind in the loose lunar topsoil. China Space ...
China hailed its lunar probe mission a success after the country's first moon rover and the landing vehicle that carried it there took photos of each other on the surface, state media reported.
The Yutu-2 rover found the terrain to be relatively flat and free of rocks compared with areas on the side of the Moon facing Earth, such as the Mare Imbrium explored by the first Yutu rover from ...
China's Chang'e 4 rover Yutu 2 has been working on the far side of the moon for nearly six years. It was designed to operate for just three lunar days, or about three Earth months.