China will launch its first ever moon rover mission on Monday.A rocket carrying the spaceship named "Jade Rabbit" will blast off at 1:30 P.M. If successful, the launch will be an amazing help to China's space exploration programme, which aims to create a space station by 2020 and eventually send someone to the moon.
It will make China only the third nation to soft-land a spacecraft on the moon. Beijing sees its military-run space programme as a great thing to prove that China is amazing in technological research and to promote themselves. China has previously sent two probes to orbit the moon early in November, Beijing offered a look into its secretive space programme when it put a model of its moon rover on public display.
The rover was later named "Yutu", or jade rabbit, following an online poll in which more than three million people voted.The name comes from an ancient Chinese myth about a white rabbit that lives on the moon as the pet of Chang'e, a lunar goddess who swallowed an immortality pill.
It will make China only the third nation to soft-land a spacecraft on the moon. Beijing sees its military-run space programme as a great thing to prove that China is amazing in technological research and to promote themselves. China has previously sent two probes to orbit the moon early in November, Beijing offered a look into its secretive space programme when it put a model of its moon rover on public display.
The rover was later named "Yutu", or jade rabbit, following an online poll in which more than three million people voted.The name comes from an ancient Chinese myth about a white rabbit that lives on the moon as the pet of Chang'e, a lunar goddess who swallowed an immortality pill.
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