The Chang'e-3 lunar rover is called "Yutu".

The "Yutu" lunar rover achieved autonomous awakening at 5:09 on November 11, 2014. After safely spending the first lunar night on the moon and withstanding the test of the extremely low temperature environment for 14 Earth days, the "Yutu" lunar rover's comprehensive electronic, measurement and control equipment was gradually powered up. After the battery was charged to a certain value, it was switched on. Switches, measurement and control lines transmit signals to the ground, and scientific researchers send signals from the ground to the moon to set the working status of the lunar rover.

The Chang'e-3 lander entered the 33rd lunar night dormancy period on time on July 28, 2016, once again breaking the international record for the longest working time of a detector on the lunar surface. The rover "Yutu" lunar rover has also stopped working. For the Jade Rabbit, which has a design life of only three months, this is an honorable retirement after overdue service.

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Achievements of the Yutu lunar rover:

Since it successfully landed on the moon in December 2013 and carried out patrol surveys, the Chang'e-3 probe carried Eight scientific payloads have successively carried out scientific exploration and other exploration tasks of "lunar measurement, sky survey, and earth observation". Obtain various types of data totaling 7TB.

The ground application system promptly released these scientific detection data and the latest detection pictures and related videos to thousands of universities and scientific research institutions across the country, including Hong Kong and Macao, which greatly promoted domestic and foreign understanding of the moon, Enthusiasm for studying the moon and using it for exploration, and has achieved a lot of innovative results.

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