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China's moon rover is alive and analyzing moon rocks
- dorfsmay 11y agoFrom wikipedia: The rover, Yutu, reached the moon on 2013/12/14, encountered operational difficulties after about one earthly month, though it continued to gather useful information for some months afterward. From the OP: "The rover has recently beamed back data" I haven't found any explanation on how it started sending data again, if it just fixed itself, or if a patch was sent up etc...
- brudgers 11y agoThe report of scientific findings: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151222/ncomms9880/full/ncomms9880.html http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151222/ncomms9880/full/nco...