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China launches its first moon rover mission
Updated On: 03 December, 2013 01:46 AM IST | | Agencies
China launched its first ever extraterrestrial landing craft into orbit in the hopes it will become the first country in almost 40 years to soft-land a probe on the moon
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The nation is only the third in history to launch an unmanned lunar probe after the Chang’e-3 device, nicknamed ‘Jade Rabbit’ after a Chinese folklore character, set off on Sunday evening.
Blast off: The Chang’e-3 rocket carrying the Jade Rabbit roveru00a0takes off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan, China.u00a0The probe is due to land on the moon in mid-December. Pic/AFP
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