YUTU 2

Question 1

What is it?

Answer 1

• Lunar rover

- Part of China Chang’e-4 lunar probe.

Question 2

What are it’s significance?

Answer 2

-follows the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System — China’s homegrown Global Positioning System

• programmed to launch ground penetration radar that would help map the moon’s
  inner structure

-would also analyse soil and rock samples for minerals, apart from activating a radio telescope to
search for possible signals from deep space