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Yutu

lunar rover
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  • Chang'e 1
    Chang’e

    …a 120-kg (260-pound) rover, called Yutu after the rabbit that accompanied the goddess Chang’e to the Moon. The lander touched down in Mare Imbrium in the Moon’s northern hemisphere on December 14. China thus became the first country to land a probe on the Moon after the Soviet Union and…

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    …a 120-kg (260-pound) rover, called Yutu after the rabbit that accompanied the goddess Chang’e to the Moon. The lander touched down in Mare Imbrium in the Moon’s northern hemisphere on December 14. China thus became the first country to land a probe on the Moon after the Soviet Union and…

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  • near and far sides of Earth's Moon
    Moon
    / Return to the Moon

    It carried a robotic rover, Yutu, which operated for almost three years.

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    It carried a robotic rover, Yutu, which operated for almost three years.

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