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China launched its first rover mission to the moon Monday, sending a robotic craft named Jade Rabbit to trundle across the lunar landscape, examine its geology and beam images back to Earth.
A rocket carrying the rover aboard an unmanned Chang’e 3 spaceship successfully blasted off early Monday from a launch center in southwestern China and was scheduled to arrive on the moon in mid-December, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
“We will strive for our space dream as part of the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation,” Xichang Satellite Launch Center director Zhang Zhenzhong said.
If the Chang’e 3 successfully soft-lands on the moon, China will become the third country to do so, after the United States and the former Soviet Union. A soft landing does not damage the craft and the equipment it carries. An earlier Chinese craft orbited and collected data before intentionally crash-landing on the moon.
“Chang’e” is a mythical Chinese goddess of the moon, and “Yutu” — or “Jade Rabbit” — is her pet.
The solar-powered rover will survey the moon’s geological structures and set up a telescope to survey the surface as well as observe the Earth’s plasmasphere, a region of dense, cold plasma that surrounds the planet, Xinhua said.
China sent its first astronaut into space in 2003, becoming the third nation after Russia and the United States to achieve manned space travel independently. China has already said its eventual goals are to have a space station and put an astronaut on the moon.
The military-backed space program is a source of enormous national pride and has powered ahead in a series of well-funded, methodically timed steps. It has already made major breakthroughs in a relatively short time, although it lags far behind the United States and Russia in space technology and experience.
Published on Dec 17, 2013
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12/17/2013 Today we analyze newly released footage from China, depicting the lunar surface taken after having successfully landed the first moon rover on our celestial neighbor in 4 decades. But what exactly do the new images contain? Stay tuned for updates on this monumental achievement.
Published on Dec 17, 2013
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Published on Dec 16, 2013
Chinese state media released footage on Monday (December 16) after the country’s first probe landed successfully on the moon over the weekend.
The Chang’e 3 probe, named after a goddess in traditional Chinese mythology, landed on the moon on Saturday (December 14), setting down a lunar rover called the “Jade Rabbit”.
The rover and the lander then took photographs of each other on Sunday (December 15), China’s state television, CCTV reported.
The “Jade Rabbit” buggy, which will dig and conduct geological surveys, will be remotely controlled by Chinese control centres with support from a network of tracking and transmission stations around the world operated by the European Space Agency (ESA).
China said on Monday (December 16) that it aims to launch the next generation of unmanned moon probe in 2017 charged mainly with the task to collect and send back lunar samples.
Advancing China’s space programme has been a priority for the leadership, with President Xi Jinping calling for China to establish itself as a space power.
China has been increasingly ambitious in developing its space programmes, for military, commercial and scientific purposes.
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