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NASA and China's Yutu Rover Are Still Making Discoveries On the Moon (examiner.com)

Posted by timothy on from the best-cheese-ever dept.

MarkWhittington writes: The last time men walked on the moon was during the flight of Apollo 17, 43 Decembers ago. According to a story in Forbes, lunar soil and rock samples returned by the last moonwalkers are still yielding new insights into the history and nature of Earth's nearest neighbor. In the meantime, the latest explorer to go to the moon, a Chinese robotic rover named Yutu has made some discoveries of its own.

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  1. Re:I must have been sick that day. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe you just have not been paying attention:
    http://www.space.com/28810-moon-history-chinese-lunar-rover.html

    For that matter the GRAIL experiment has done more to expose the inner structure of the Moon than either of the points raised in the article
    http://www.space.com/18780-grail-moon-gravity-map.html