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Awaiting Yutu’s Phone Home on Lunar Day 3
Will Yutu Phone Home ? This composite view shows China’s Yutu rover heading south and away forever from the Chang’e-3 landing site about a week after the Dec. 14, 2013 touchdown at Mare Imbrium. This...
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Time for Earth to bid China’s Yutu Moon Rover Farewell ?
Farewell Yutu - artistic impression of Earthrise over Yutu at lunar landing site. This composite timelapse photomosaic combines farewell view of China’s Yutu rover with Moon’s surface terrain at Mare...
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China’s Yutu Moon Rover Alive and Awake for 3rd Lunar Day of Exploration...
Yutu Lives!The little ‘rabbit’ beloved worldwide has now phoned home and actually survived the perils of the long lunar night and is alive and awake to start a 3rd day of scientific exploration despite...
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Yutu Moon Rover Starts 3rd Night Time Hibernation But Technical Problems Persist
Chang’e-3/Yutu Timelapse Color Panorama This newly expanded timelapse composite view shows China’s Yutu moon rover at two positions passing by crater and heading south and away from the Chang’e-3...
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China’s Yutu Moon Rover Unable to Properly Maneuver Solar Panels
This time-lapse color panorama from China’s Chang’e-3 lander shows the Yutu rover at two different positions during its trek over the Moon’s surface at its landing site from Dec. 15-18, 2013. This...
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China’s Yutu Moon rover starts Lunar Day 4 Awake but Ailing
Chang’e-3/Yutu Timelapse Color Panorama This newly expanded timelapse composite view shows China’s Yutu moon rover at two positions passing by crater and heading south and away from the Chang’e-3...
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China Launches Moon Mission to Test Key Lunar Sample Return Technologies
China launched a robotic mission to the Moon today (Oct. 23 EDT/Oct. 24 BJT) that will test a slew of key technologies required for safely delivering samples gathered from the Moon’s surface and...
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Chinese Unmanned Lunar Orbiter Returns Home Safely, Paves Path for Ambitious...
A Chinese robotic probe has just successfully completed the first round trip to the Moon and back home in four decades that paves the path for China’s next great space leap forward - an ambitious...
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Walk Beside China’s Moon Rover In Best Chang’e-3 Mission Pictures Ever
It's been just over a year since China wowed the world with the first soft Moon landing in almost 40 years. The Chang'e-3 robotic lander made it all the way to Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on Dec. 14,...
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China Plans Lunar Far Side Landing by 2020
China plans lunar far side landing with hardware similar to Chang'e-3 lander This time-lapse color panorama from China’s Chang’e-3 lander shows the Yutu rover at two different positions during its...
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Incredible Descent Video of the Chinese Lander to the Lunar Far Side
On January 2nd, 2019, China’s Chang’e-4 lander made a successful landing on the far side of the Moon. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP)...
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China’s Rover Checks out that Weird Cube on the Moon. Surprise! It’s a Rock.
Back in early December 2021, China’s Yutu 2 rover made headlines when it spied what looked like a curious cube-shaped object on the Moon’s surface. Of course, speculations ran rampant. And it didn’t...
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