China arrives at the Moon

The unmanned device, carrying a robot for geological study, landed on a plain in the northern hemisphere. The robot takes coupled cameras to photograph the landscape, a espetrómetro to analyze the chemical composition of the soil and a radar to study the soil and rocks to a depth of 100 meters.

"Yutu" Jade Rabbit, in Portuguese, has six wheels, weighs more than 100 pounds, can do with a slope rises up to 30 degrees, walks 200 feet per hour and moves using solar energy.

After the United States and the former Soviet Union, China becomes the third country to "conquer" the moon.

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