China has released hundreds of images of the moon, taken by its Chang’e 3 lander and its companion rover, Yutu. It’s been 50 years since the first lunar photos were taken by astronauts on NASA’s Apollo 11 mission. China is the third nation to land on the Moon, with the USA and the USSR preceding them.
The world is still celebrating the historic landing of China’s Chang’e-4 on the far side of the moon on January 3. This week, China announced its plans to follow up with three more lunar missions, laying the groundwork for a lunar base.
CHINESE companies are now using billions of cockroaches to get rid of food waste, in a desperate bid to cope with large amounts of trash.
A small cotton shoot is growing onboard Chang’e 4 lunar lander, scientists confirm
The rover is the first to land on the dark side of the moon.
Humanity just planted its flag on the far side of the moon.
The funerary complex of the first Chinese emperor of the Qin dynasty (3 BC) is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world.
The two world powers have reportedly been working together on a series of controversial experiments.
China is going where no one has gone before–the farside of the Moon. At 2:23 am on Dec. 8th (local time in Sichuan province), a Long March 3B rocket blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, propelling a lander and rover toward the lunar farside. Zhou Kun photographed the launch: “I took the picture only
Last week we talked about the Chinese Chang’e-4 lunar probe that China was set to launch to study the far side of the moon. The probe launched in the early hours of Saturday morning and that lunch went off without a hitch. China sent the probe towards the moon atop a Long March-3B rocket.
