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The Chang'e-4 mission's Yutu-2Rover is still active on the lunar surface. The Chang'e-4 mission landed on the moon in 2019.

China launched the Chang’e-4 lander and rover mission to the far side of the moon in late 2018, with the lander and Yutu-2 rover touching down in Von Kármán crater Jan. 3, 2019.

The lunar rover, launched in 2018, sent fresh images from the moon’s far side. The Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, has now travelled 1,613 metres on the lunar surface.

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But the Chinese rover has nevertheless beat the longevity record of the Soviet Lunokhod 1 rover. The Soviet machine roved the Moon for 321 Earth days in 1971, but Yutu-2 has been going strong for ...

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The Yutu-2 lunar rover has revealed new insights into the soil composition on the Moon's far side, which could inform future space missions.