{"id":5691,"date":"2013-12-14T13:57:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T13:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2013-12-15T06:21:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T06:21:34","slug":"chinese-change-3-spacecraft-lands-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5691","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Chang&#8217;e 3 spacecraft lands on the Moon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese Chang&#8217;e 3 spacecraft has landed successfully on the Moon:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/live.china.org.cn\/2013\/12\/13\/coming-soon-change-3-lands-on-the-moon\/\" target=\"_d\">Live: China lands moon probe &#8211; China.org.cn Live\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China\u2019s lunar probe Chang\u2019e 3 made a successful landing on the moon on Saturday night, Beijing Time, marking China\u2019s first spacecraft to soft-land on the surface of an extraterrestrial body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/live.china.org.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/live.china.org.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/11.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The first image transmitted by the downward-looking camera.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Yutu (&#8220;Jade Rabbit&#8221;) rover \u00a0will be deployed in a few hours.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.cntv.cn\/special\/lunarmission\/index.shtml\" target=\"_d\">Chang\u2019e-3 Lunar Probe &#8211; CCTV.com English<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-25356603#TWEET984586\" target=\"_d\">China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon &#8211; BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2013\/12\/china-jade-rabbit-lunar-arrival\/\" target=\"_d\">China\u2019s Chang\u2019e-3 and Jade Rabbit duo land on the Moon &#8211; NASASpaceFlight.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: The landing occurred about an hour earlier than expected from press reports. \u00a0Here is a video of an English Chinese TV broadcast at the time of the landing:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A_cgi8U3Fsc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2<\/strong>: \u00a0This article and video describe the lander and rover in some detail:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/english.cntv.cn\/program\/china24\/20131214\/104186.shtml\" target=\"_d\">Crossover: 720 seconds of Chang\u00b4e-3 moon landing CCTV News &#8211; CNTV English<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object id=\"v_player_cctv\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"adCall=http%3A\/\/a.cctv.com\/xtserver\/site%3Denglish.cntv.cn\/aamsz%3DVOD_ADS\/CHANNEL%3DCN10\/sorts%3DC27068000004\/keyword%3Dchinatodaynews\/sorts_special%3D&amp;videoId=20131214104186&amp;filePath=\/flvxml\/2009\/12\/14\/&amp;isAutoPlay=false&amp;url=http:\/\/english.cntv.cn\/program\/china24\/20131214\/104186.shtml&amp;tai=english&amp;configPath=http:\/\/js.player.cntv.cn\/xml\/config\/outside.xml&amp;widgetsConfig=&amp;languageConfig=http:\/\/js.player.cntv.cn\/xml\/english\/main.xml&amp;hour24DataURL=&amp;outsideChannelId=channelBugu&amp;videoCenterId=40bf08a0a9dc4f799e3da0a73af47f53\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/player.cntv.cn\/standard\/cntvOutSidePlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"lk_mediaid\" value=\"lk_juiceapp_mediaPopup_1257416656250\" \/><param name=\"lk_media\" value=\"yes\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 3<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/about\/staff\/emily-lakdawalla.html\">Emily Lakdawalla<\/a>\u00a0at the Planetary Society\u00a0has lots of good stuff about the event including the following sequence of images below that were sent during the landing:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/emily-lakdawalla\/2013\/12140619-change-3-has-successfully-landed.html\" target=\"_d\">Chang&#8217;e 3 has successfully landed on the Moon! &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/multimedia\/space-images\/earth\/change-3-lands-on-the-moon.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chang'e 3 lands on the Moon\" src=\"http:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/images\/3-moon\/20131214_Chang_e3_landing_f537.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>CCTV<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And here is a color image as well:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/multimedia\/space-images\/earth\/image-of-the-lunar-surface.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image of the lunar surface from Chang'e 3 lander\" src=\"http:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/images\/3-moon\/20131214_change_3_surface_photo_f537.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<em>Image of the lunar surface from Chang&#8217;e 3 lander<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese Chang&#8217;e 3 spacecraft has landed successfully on the Moon:\u00a0Live: China lands moon probe &#8211; China.org.cn Live\u00a0 China\u2019s lunar probe Chang\u2019e 3 made a successful landing on the moon on Saturday night, Beijing Time, marking China\u2019s first spacecraft to soft-land on the surface of an extraterrestrial body. The first image transmitted by the downward-looking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5691\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese Chang&#8217;e 3 spacecraft lands on the Moon!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[79,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-space","category-space-science","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1tN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5684,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5684","url_meta":{"origin":5691,"position":0},"title":"China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e 3 set to land on the Moon","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Chinese Chang'e 3 spacecraft is expected to land on the Moon on Saturday\u00a0at 9:40 p.m. Beijing local time, 8:40 a.m. EST. 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