Sightings Robots Will Roll to the Moon

BEIJING - China prepares to launch its latest technology robotic rover that will land on the Moon . The launch will begin in December 2013 .

Reported TheVerge , Saturday ( 30/11/2013 ) , this is the name of the robot rover Yutu or Jade Rabbit . Naming the space robot emerges from a voting system that followed 190 thousand participants . Robot glides on December 1, 2013 at 17:30 GMT .

Reportedly , a rocket will send the robot to the Moon Chang'e lunar probe along with a 3 . " Yutu is a symbol of goodness , purity , agility and identical to the rover moon , " said Li Benzheng , Deputy Commander of the Chinese Lunar Program .

Yutu expected to arrive on December 14, 2013 at the Moon . The robot will land in an area called the Sea of Rainbows . Having a six wheeled robot will spend time during the three months to roam the Moon .

This mission will observe and conduct surveys on the surface of the Moon using modern observation instrument . Robots will take a sample and sent back to Earth .

China has previously held the space program Chang'e 1 and Chang'e 2 , where the Chinese space agency collecting the data surface of the Moon . Scheduled after Chang'e 3 mission successfully , then China could send astronauts to the Moon's surface in 2025-2030 .

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