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China's Jade Rabbit Moon Rover Not Dead

posted by robind on Thursday February 13 2014, @06:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the you're-breaking-up dept.
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amblivous writes: "It seems that reports of Jade Rabbit's death may have been premature as it is showing some signs of life again. New Scientist reports that the Chinese space agency has received signals from Yutu (Jade Rabbit) and amateurs have also received a downlink signal, according to the Planetary Society. It is not yet clear if Yutu will be able to continue its mission."

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by umafuckitt on Thursday February 13 2014, @06:21AM

    by umafuckitt (20) on Thursday February 13 2014, @06:21AM (#36)
    To go where no rabbit has gone before?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2014, @05:49AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2014, @05:49AM (#209)

      Good thing that there is still some life in it.
      I hope it will continue to work, at least until easter :-)

      Are there any information on what they plan to do in the future to protect equipment from the moon dust?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 13 2014, @06:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 13 2014, @06:41AM (#39)

    It's dead, Jim.

    Or if it isn't, it soon will be, anyway.

    • (Score: 0) by mattie_p on Thursday February 13 2014, @06:55AM

      by mattie_p (13) on Thursday February 13 2014, @06:55AM (#40) Journal
      Post!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 13 2014, @03:20PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 13 2014, @03:20PM (#56)
      If I am a magician, then now I will be able to post anonymously while logged in.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday February 13 2014, @06:59AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday February 13 2014, @06:59AM (#41) Homepage Journal
    It amuses me that we scooped /. on the sixth story.
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  • (Score: 1) by toygeek on Thursday February 13 2014, @07:03AM

    by toygeek (28) on Thursday February 13 2014, @07:03AM (#43) Homepage
    Which is probably a very good thing, considering that we may send live astronauts back to the moon at some point (assuming they know the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow).
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    • (Score: 1) by CowboyTeal on Thursday February 13 2014, @07:13AM

      by CowboyTeal (15) on Thursday February 13 2014, @07:13AM (#44)
      Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
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      Getting siggy with it.

      • (Score: 2, Funny) by toygeek on Thursday February 13 2014, @07:31AM

        by toygeek (28) on Thursday February 13 2014, @07:31AM (#48) Homepage
        Yes, from the north to the south pole of this banana shaped world.
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  • (Score: 1) by Maow on Friday February 14 2014, @02:15AM

    by Maow (8) on Friday February 14 2014, @02:15AM (#61) Homepage

    There were some fairly poignant comments on /. when the rover went silent.

    I'm thrilled that it's revived.

    Keep sciencing, Yutu, the people of Earth wish you longevity and success!

    • (Score: 1) by janrinok on Friday February 14 2014, @09:00PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 14 2014, @09:00PM (#108) Journal

      Ah now my preference of Plain Text seems to have stuck - perhaps someone has changed something, somewhere at sometime or other. Maybe....