Photo provided by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on January 4, 2019 shows image of Yutu-2, China's lunar rover, at preset location A on the surface of the far side of the moon (XINHUA/CNSA) Chinese scientists published the country's lunar rover travelogue of its first two...
BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists published the country's lunar rover travelogue of its first two years of service that depicted the unique and untrodden moonscape on the moon's far side, revealing its notable differences with the near side with in situ evidence. The study publ...
Privately funded lunar exploration has been promoted by the Google Lunar X Prize, announced 13 September 2007, which offers US$20 million to anyone who can land a robotic rover on the Moon and meet other specified criteria. 在2007年9月13日宣布的Google月球X大獎,鼓勵私人資助的月球探索計畫,將...
BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) -- China's Yutu-2, the first rover on the far side of the moon, has found materials from deep inside the moon that could help unravel the mystery of the lunar mantle composition and the formation and evolution of the moon and the earth. Using data obtained by...
China's Yutu 2 rover, as seen by the Chang'e 4 lander on the far side of the moon. (Image credit: CNSA) China's far-side moon mission has turned its history-making gaze underground. The Chang'e 4 spacecraft touched down on the floor of the 115-mile-wide (186 kilometers) Von ...
e 4mission to the dark side of theMoon. In the photo, the mission’s Jade Rabbit 2 lunar rover can be seen rolling off its Chang’e 4parent craft. Consequently, it has now become the first man-made object to land on the side of the Moon that we cannot see directly from Earth. ...
The article discusses Chinese Yutu rover's use of radar waves to reveal subsurface layers on the moon, with details on knowledge of the moon's geologic history.SumnerThomasScience News
“The globules simply blow our mind, since they are so unique on the Moon,” Xiao says. Two confirmed (upper row) and two possible (bottom row) glass globules found along the route of Yutu-2. Credit: Image taken by the Yutu-2 rover; courtesy of China National Space Administration) ©...
The original Yutu was also a moon rover, which landed on the near side in December 2013 as part of China's Chang'e 3 mission. (In Chinese mythology, Chang'e is a moon goddess, and Yutu, or "Jade Rabbit," is her pet.) Get the Space.com Newsletter Breaking space news, the latest...
The Chinese Chang'e 3 mission to the moon is delivering the first new scientific results from the lunar surface since US and Russian missions ended in the 1970s