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China’s lander and Yutu-2 rover have worked for 1,000 Earth days on the lunar farside, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration (CNSA).

Chang’e-4 lander and Yutu-2 rover. Images of each other taken by the respective machinery.
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The lander, rover, and payloads are reportedly in good condition.

As of Wednesday, Yutu-2 has traveled 2,754 feet (840 meters) and obtained 3,632.01 gigabytes (GB) of data.

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The Chang’e-4 probe, launched on December 8, 2018, making the first-ever soft landing within the Von Kármán Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the Moon’s farside on January 3, 2019.

Von Kármán crater as viewed by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

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