Saturday, December 14, 2013

Chinese robot fell on the lunar surface, patrolling the street - AGI - Italian News Agency

23:28 December 14, 2013

(AGI) – Beijing, December 14 – There ‘detached from the spacecraft’ Chang E-3 ‘and e’ dropped on the surface of the Moon, where he immediately began the activity ‘patrol, the six-wheeled robot Yutu Chinese, or Jade Rabbit: it was announced the state broadcaster ‘CCTV’, transmitting a delayed images of the historic event. Yutu has taken on the moon to move about seven hours after the arrival of the probe on the satellite. The People’s Republic ‘so’ became the third country in the world, after the United States and the Soviet Union dissolved, to successfully complete such an undertaking, and the first to be able to bring a human artifact on the moon 37 years. News ‘complete, the robot will install’ a telescope for observations. Yutu, a name chosen by a popular vote, and ‘powered by solar panels and provided, inter alia, a mechanical arm and three pairs of cameras. E ‘can also dig and probe the subsurface to a depth’ of 100 meters. The mission is expected to last three months.

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