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China Releases Gorgeous New Footage of the Far Side of the Moon

• https://motherboard.vice.com by Becky Ferreira

The first robot to land on the far side of the Moon released breathtaking panoramic images of its new home on Friday.

China's Chang'e 4 spacecraft, which made a historic touchdown on January 3 (Beijing time), used its terrain camera to take 360 degree shots of its location in Von Kármán crater.

The mission's Yutu 2 rover is visible in some of the images, having successfully rolled onto the lunar surface about 12 hours after its mothership landed. The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP) also released two new pictures that Chang'e 4 and Yutu 2 snapped of each other.

In addition to the new shots from the surface, CLEP published otherworldly footage of the target region as the spacecraft descended and prepared to touch down.


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