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Earth Bids China’s Yutu Moon Rover Farewell Forever!
Farewell Yutu – artistic impression of Earthrise over Yutu at lunar landing site. This composite photomosaic combines farewell view of China’s Yutu rover with Moon’s surface terrain at Mare Imbrium landing site and enlarged photo of Earth – all images taken by Chang’e-3 lander. Not a science image. Credit: CNSA/Chinanews/Ken Kremer/Marco Di Lorenzo – kenkremer.com
China’s maiden moon rover ‘Yutu’, beloved by millions, has been lost.
RIP!
The sad, breaking news was just reported today in an ultra brief dispatch by the English language version of Chinadaily – with the headline “Loss of lunar rover.”
Yutu apparently froze to death and failed to wake up and communicate with China’s mission controllers in Beijing on Monday, Feb. 10, when daylight returned to the rovers lunar landing site at Mare Imbrium at the start of what would have been Lunar Day 3. (…)
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© Ken Kremer for Universe Today, 2014. |
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Post tags: Apollo Moon landings, China, china space program, Luna 24, Mare Imbrium, Moon, NASA, soviet space program, Yutu rover
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/109266/earth-bids-chinas-yutu-moon-rover-farewell-forever/
