Lunar Rover Lands, SotA Preview Released, Busy Weekend! (December 15, 2013)

[ChrisReid]

The first new lander and rover vehicle since 1976 successfully set down on the moon and began exploring this weekend. China now joins the USA, Russia and Origin founder Richard Garriott as the owners of such equipment on our natural satellite. While the outspoken space exploration promoter is no doubt excited at the news, Mr. Garriott is also tied up in the first public release of his new game Shroud of the Avatar. Release 1 of the game is just a brief peek inside the new world being created, but it's getting very favorable reviews for such an early demo product. So what else is new with you this weekend?









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Original update published on December 15, 2013

 

[-danr-]

I can't help but think that China is planning to solve its population problem by setting up a huge Lunar colony

On a serious note, I wonder if the Chinese will eventually release pictures of any evidence of the Apollo presence there, it would be fantastic to finally silence the Moon landing hoax conspiracy loons. I mean, surely China would have no reason to confirm America really did go to the Moon if it weren't true. No doubt the conspiracy idiots would claim 'China must be in on it' if this happened, before lighting up another bong.

 

[Ijuin]

Chang'e III landed at least a couple hundred kilometers away from any other human-made object, so it's not exactly going to drive up to any landing sites. However, the Lunar Reconnaissance Rover did take orbital photographs of the Apollo landing sites with enough resolution to identify a number of objects including the descent stages, the moon buggies, and the astronauts' tracks on the surface.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter

The photos of the Apollo landing sites are at the bottom of the page.