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China’s Jade Rabbit rover sent back its first pictures from the moon, as officials on Monday lauded the first lunar soft landing in nearly four decades as a step forward for “mankind as a whole”.
Published on Dec 16, 2013
China is really happy with itself now that it has become the third country to make a soft landing on the moon. They did it right on the heels of the Russians too. Too bad it only took them 37 years.
China’s first-ever moon rover is now driving around on the Moon’s surface after successfully deploying from its carrier lander to begin exploring the Bay of Rainbows.
The Chang’e 3 lunar lander reached the moon Saturday at about 9:12pm Beijing time. This makes China the third country to make it to the moon after the former Soviet Union and the United States. The lander also deployed the robotic rover Yutu, translated as “Jade Rabbit,” to the surface to begin its three-month long exploration mission.
A few hours after touch down, Jade Rabbit’s wheels were unlocked by activating explosive devices and the rover unfolded its solar wings and deployed its instrument-covered mast. A cable that was connecting the rover to the lander was then cut. A transferer system, essentially two ladders set up on the lander, then deployed allowing the Jade Rabbit access to the lunar surface.
The six-wheeled rover moved to a spot about 9 meters north of the landing vehicle on Sunday night and the pair took photos for about a minute. The Jade Rabbit will survey the moon’s geological structure and surface and will look for natural resources for the next three months.
No doubt China will be patting itself on the back for this for quite some time to come.
So funny. Is too bad Humans are not allowed to step foot on the moon…Just rovers! What do we fear at the moon? Hmmm whatver it might be is controlling our planet
I bet the Chinese find out that the USA NEVER LANDED ONE PERSON ON THE MOON!
EVER!
And, they will TELL ALL THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER!
Fits right in with the U.S. policy of LIE, LIE, LIE!
AND, KILL, KILL, KILL!
What do you expect from a predominately “Christian” nation?
i am lactose intolerant, i cant go to the moon
hey plastics man, how do you know the chinese havnt faked their moon landing?
About time they actually got something on another planet.
Maybe now they’ll see why America doesn’t go there anymore… just a dull rock. (nice to look at though)
Yeah just like your brain, a DULL ROCK!
What an idiotic video. Yeah, that’s exactly how it happened.
be carefull where you park it:
http://www.ssrichardmontgomery.com/download/moondrive.jpg
Hi Friends, about the advertised landing of an Chinese vehicle rover on the Moon, stay aware of important information: The Moon, by having a tenuous atmosphere is extremely starry sky and could see millions of stars, nebulae, planets and the sun itself very clearly setting. If on the material presented you do not see these astrological references completely visible and clear, ya can and should totally doubting the content presented. Remember the NASA hoax, looks like the same kind of trick.
OMG! What is the matter with the Chinese? Sending back full color pictures of the lunar surface? Don’t they know the sheeple are only allowed to see black & white (greyscale) pictures of the lunar surface. Now people are going to start saying the moon cheese has surface mold growing on it.