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China's scientific to the Moon has sent back its first photos of the surface. A robot called the Jade Rabbit became the first to traverse the Moon's volcanic ash since America's Apollo four ago. Scientists at China's mission control were as the first high-quality images came through of an area of the Moon as the Bay of Rainbows. The photos showed the rover with the Chinese flag clearly visible against the dark of space. Jade Rabbit is expected to test soil ahead of the possible mining of the Moon's rocks and . A Chinese scientist said: "China's lunar programme is an important component of mankind's activities to explore the use of space."

The South China Morning Post described the Moon landing as a achievement in Chinese history. It wrote: "The world long ago sat up and took of China's rapid rise as a space ….But nothing compares with the scientific and technological of the landing on the moon at 9.12 on Saturday night." It said the mission, "has transformed China's of putting a man on the moon into a ; sooner rather than later". China's fiction writers are also overjoyed with their country's . Chen Qiufan described his of the future, saying: "I think everything will look when a Chinese person looks at Earth from the Moon." He added: "I expect that day will come.”

 


 

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