The new robot will be larger and more autonomous than Yutu 2, which is exploring the moon's far side today.
China is working on a new moon rover that will be more autonomous and slightly bigger than its Yutu 2 robot, seen here, which has been exploring the lunar far side since 2019.
"The rover of the Chang'e 7 is slightly larger than that of the Chang'e 4 in scale. It is designed to carry different instruments, and is of roughly the same structure," Chang'e 7 Deputy Chief Designer Tang Yuhua, of the Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center of China, told CCTV. The rover will also be more independent.
"It's more intelligent. The original rover had more ground intervention, and now the path planning will be more autonomous," Tang said. but will have a magnetometer and a raman spectrometer, instead of the visible and infrared spectrometer and the energetic neutral atom analyzer instrument provided by Sweden for Yutu 2's mission.
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