China's Yutu 2 rover still going strong after 4 years on the moon's far side

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China's Yutu 2 rover still going strong after 4 years on the moon's far side
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Andrew is a freelance space journalist with a focus on reporting on China's rapidly growing space sector. He began writing for Space.com in 2019 and writes for SpaceNews, IEEE Spectrum, National Geographic, Sky & Telescope, New Scientist and others. Andrew first caught the space bug when, as a youngster, he saw Voyager images of other worlds in our solar system for the first time. Away from space, Andrew enjoys trail running in the forests of Finland. You can follow him on Twitter @AJ_FI.

There have been few updates on Yutu 2 — whose name means"Jade Rabbit 2" — over the past year, but the rover is suddenly a star once more as ChinaThe rover has traveled a total of 4,774 feet across Von Kármán crater in its four years of exploration and is now 865 feet northwest of the Chang'e 4 lander from which it rolled down onto the moon.

New images taken on Jan. 18 and released by CLEP show rocks and impact craters, winding tracks made by Yutu 2 in the lunar regolith and the distant wall of the 115-mile-wide Von Kármán Crater. An impact crater and the distant wall of the moon's Von Kármán crater, imaged by China's Yutu 2 rover in January 2023.

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