Monday, December 2, 2013

The Jade Rabbit (玉兔) set to Land on the Moon on December 14th.

Last week, China hurled a Long March rocket toward the moon. The rocket is carrying a vehicle that was called Jade Rabbit that, if all goes according to plan, will land on the surface of the moon around December 14th. The last time any object blasted off from earth landed on the surface of the moon was way back in 1976, when the Russians undertook the Luna 24 mission.


Jade Rabbit, pronounced Yùtù in Chinese, is a gold foil covered buggy that has six wheels and is clustered with instruments. Included are soil samplers, telescopes for examining ultraviolet light from distant stars. The remote lunar buggy will also transmit images taken of Earth back to its home planets.

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