{"id":39915,"date":"2019-01-05T17:38:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T12:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=39915"},"modified":"2019-01-05T17:38:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T12:08:05","slug":"lunar-rover-named-as-yutu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lunar-rover-named-as-yutu-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar rover named as \u2018Yutu 2\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/lunar-rover-named-as-yutu-2\/article25913948.ece\">Lunar rover named as \u2018Yutu 2\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>China lunar rover, successfully deployed to carry out a string of experiments on the far side of the moon, as \u2018Yutu-2\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Impotent Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rover\u2019s touchdown is part of China Chang\u2019e-4 lunar probe.<\/li>\n<li>China\u2019s lunar probe is part of its \u2018Made in China-2025\u2019 project, which focuses on advanced technology, including space applications.<\/li>\n<li>The rover has been programmed to launch ground penetration radar that would help map the moon\u2019s inner structures.<\/li>\n<li>It would also analyse soil and rock samples for minerals, apart from activating a radio telescope to search for possible signals from deep space.<\/li>\n<li>The payload also carried a canister filled with air, soil, water, bacterium, silkworm eggs, the seeds of a small flowering plant and a potato.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 Why is this Moon landing so significant?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Previous Moon missions have landed on the Earth-facing side, but this is the first attempt to explore the rugged far side from the surface.<\/li>\n<li>Landing on the far side isn&#8217;t fundamentally different to landing on the near side of the Moon. But it presents a communications challenge because there&#8217;s no direct line of sight to Earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunar rover named as \u2018Yutu 2\u2019 News: China lunar rover, successfully deployed to carry out a string of experiments on the far side of the moon, as \u2018Yutu-2\u2019. Impotent Facts: The rover\u2019s touchdown is part of China Chang\u2019e-4 lunar probe. China\u2019s lunar probe is part of its \u2018Made in China-2025\u2019 project, which focuses on advanced&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lunar-rover-named-as-yutu-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lunar rover named as \u2018Yutu 2\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704744703},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}