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CTOnews.com January 21 news, jade rabbit means good. China Aerospace has a "Jade Rabbit" living on the moon. It is the "Jade Rabbit 2" lunar rover. According to the release of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, on the occasion of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rabbit, it sent back the latest photography works from the moon 380,000 kilometers away, sending a New Year blessing. At present, the Yutu-2 lunar rover and its scientific payload are in normal condition.

According to Xinhua News Agency, the National Space Administration released the latest engineering pictures of Yutu 2 on January 21, sending New Year greetings to Chinese children.

The lunar surface trajectory map of Yutu 2 lunar rover in the first 50 months, with a cumulative driving distance of 1455.2 meters and a straight line distance of 865.1 meters from Chang 'e 4 Six. When the first ray of sunlight was shed on the back of the moon, the Yutu 2 lunar rover and Chang 'e 4 six spacecraft woke up autonomously on January 15 and January 16, respectively, ushering in the 51st lunar working period.

During the morning of the 51st month (January 18,2023), when the Yutu-2 lunar rover traveled to LE05103, the panoramic camera mounted on the lunar rover took a 360-degree ring shot around the lunar rover. This image was obtained by stitching the panoramic camera ring photos, in which the ruts left by the lunar rover can be seen. (Photo courtesy of NASA)

Panoramic images of the lunar surface taken during the morning of the 51st month (January 18, 2023) when the Yutu-2 lunar rover traveled to LE05103. Among them, the left picture shows the rut image left by the lunar rover, the middle picture shows a stone about 4 meters away from the lunar rover, about 25 centimeters in size; the right picture shows a small impact crater about 37 meters away from the lunar rover, about 5 meters in diameter. CTOnews.com learned that Yutu 2, a lunar rover for Chang 'e 4 mission, arrived at the back of the moon on January 3,2019. At present, Yutu 2 has been working for more than 4 years, has traveled nearly 1500 meters accumulatively, and has released scientific data at all levels exceeding 940.1GB.

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