China’s lunar probe Chang’e 3 made a successful landing on the moon on Saturday night, Beijing Time, marking China’s first spacecraft to soft-land on the surface of an extraterrestrial body.
The first image transmitted by the downward-looking camera.
The Yutu (“Jade Rabbit”) rover will be deployed in a few hours.
Update: The landing occurred about an hour earlier than expected from press reports. Here is a video of an English Chinese TV broadcast at the time of the landing: