The Jade Rabbit 2 rover has succeeded in establishing a digital transmission link with a relay satellite that sends data back to the Beijing control center, the space agency said in a posting late Friday on its website.
The rover's radar and panoramic camera have been activated and are working normally, it said. A photo released by the agency showed the rover stopped at a point not far from where the Chang'e 4 spacecraft touched down Thursday.
Chang'e 4, named after a Chinese moon goddess, is the first craft to make a soft landing on the moon's far side, which faces away from Earth.
The Chinese moon goddess of autocracy rises? So much for the Tiananmen Square Goddess of Democracy.
And within minutes, a Chinese democracy activist stood in front of the lunar robot which promptly ran him over and crushed him.
I await the dark side's inclusion on China's newest official map of control and claims.
