On Saturday morning, China successfully landed a robotic craft on the lunar surface. It was the first "soft landing" on the moon since 1976. The Chang'e 3 lander touched down near a crater called Laplace A in the Bay of Rainbows (
Sinus Iridum) on the northern edge of the Sea of Showers (
Mare Imbrium).
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Location of Chang'e 3 lander that deployed the Jade Rabbit rover on Saturday, December 14, 2013
This is my photo from September 18, 2013 |
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| Landing location near Laplace A crater. NASA image (public domain) by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). |
The small arrow to the bottom left of the image above shows the location of the Soviet
Lunokhod 1 rover, which was the first rover to land on something other than the Earth. Lunokhod 1 landed in 1970, and now has a new neighbor 43 years later.
Laplace A
Laplace A
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