China's First Lunar Rover Jade Rabbit landed on the Moon

Far-powered unmanned spacecraft Chang 'E-3's first lunar rover moved by December 14, 2013 China successfully landed on the moon. Lunar Rover name Jade Rabbit (In Chinese Utu) is placed. Chang 'E-3-3B carrier rocket was sent by a long march.

After the America and the Soviet Union for soft landing on the surface of the moon China has become the third country. In the past three decades, China is the first country to do so. Earlier, the Soviet Union's Luna probes landing on the moon in 1976 was the last space mission. The U.S. manned Apollo 17 mission landed on the moon, four years after launching.

China's First Lunar Rover Jade Rabbit landed on the Moon

Lunar Rover on the Jade Rabbit:

• It is a six-wheeled lunar rover.
• It is equipped with four cameras and two mechanical legs, digging to a depth of 30 meters, which can take soil samples.
• The solar - energy a lunar rover on the moon's surface for at least the next three months patrolling the moon's crust (crust), will study rocks and soil.
• It weighs 140 kg and an optical telescope for astronomical observations are taken.
• It is a powerful ultraviolet camera, the different layers of the Earth's atmosphere, namely the troposphere, stratosphere and to monitor the effects of solar activity on Aynosfiyr
• Radioisotope Heater Units her cool Lunar Rover - will help to working at night, when the moon's temperature falls to -180 ° C.
• Shanghai Research Institute of Aerospace engineering, the rover can climb slopes up to 30 degrees and can run at a speed of 200 meters per hour.
• China military, commercial and scientific purposes to develop its space program is more ambitious.
  China's First Lunar Rover Jade Rabbit landed on the Moon