China reveals incredible new pictures of the dark side of the moon

The Yutu-2 rover has now spent a year exploring the moon’s far or ‘dark’ side, which faces away from Earth. Last year, the People’s Republic became the first nation to make a ‘soft landing’ in this never-before explored region.

The pioneering landing demonstrated China’s growing ambitions as a space power and is part of a shadowy long-term space strategy that’s feared to have some sort of military component. The probe landed aboard the Chang’e-4 lander in a crater called Von Kármán, which is named after Theodore von Kármán, PhD advisor to Qian Xuesen, founder of the Chinese space program.

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