The previous mission involved the Chang’e-3 probe and Yutu lunar rover. Chang’e is the name of the Chinese moon goddess. The mission, from the trip to the Moon, the landing on the lunar ...

The data, gathered by the Yutu 2 rover’s ground-penetrating ... the readings from the rover suggest that the top layer of lunar regolith — the pale, dusty soil that covers what we see of ...

The China National Space Administration and the National Museum of China jointly launched an exhibition at the Beijing Museum ...

The second rover made a historic soft landing on the far side of the moon, making China the first country to do so. “The lunar Yutu rovers are good practice in many ways for a Martian rover.

a year after a lunar fly-around by astronauts. China, in 2013, becomes the third country to successfully land on the moon, delivering a rover named Yutu, Chinese for jade rabbit. China follows ...

China follows with the Yutu-2 rover in 2019, this time touching down on the moon’s unexplored far side — an impressive first. A sample return mission on the moon’s near side in 2020 yields nearly 4 ...