China Launches its First Rocket to the Moon

China launched its first ever extraterrestrial landing craft the Yutu or Jade Rabbit, which is a a solar-powered, six-wheeled vehicle which will survey for valuable moon resources.

The Jade Rabbit is scheduled to land on the moon in two weeks time and begin to send back photos of Sinus Iridum, or the Bay of Rainbows, a basaltic plain formed from lava that filled a crater.