THE JADE RABBIT HAS LANDED
Dec. 16th, 2013 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogNeedless to say, the lead story in Hong Kong for the past couple of days over the weekend (until the MTR broke down for five hours today) has been China’s Chang'e-3 lander arriving on the moon, and deploying the Yutu (“Jade Rabbit”) rover.
It’s easy for Americans to scoff – “Oh, moon landings? That’s so 60s.” On the other hand, the Chang'e-3/Yutu is the most high-tech thing ever to land on the moon, and its mission will score a number of firsts, to include exploration of lava tunnels that might serve as ideal locations for moon colonies.
io9 has a good write-up on why the Chang'e-3 mission is a bigger deal than some might think.
Unless, of course, it’s all a hoax.
Or a secret plot to build a secret military moon base. Or something.
Nice moon, we’ll take it,
This is dF
It’s easy for Americans to scoff – “Oh, moon landings? That’s so 60s.” On the other hand, the Chang'e-3/Yutu is the most high-tech thing ever to land on the moon, and its mission will score a number of firsts, to include exploration of lava tunnels that might serve as ideal locations for moon colonies.
io9 has a good write-up on why the Chang'e-3 mission is a bigger deal than some might think.
Unless, of course, it’s all a hoax.
Or a secret plot to build a secret military moon base. Or something.
Nice moon, we’ll take it,
This is dF
