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China's Chang'e-4 probe completes work for 44th lunar day
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The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe were again switched to dormant mode on July 6 for the lunar night after working stably for a 44th lunar day. The lander was switched to dormant mode at 06:00 on July 6 (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2, at 19:14 on July 5. The lunar rover has traveled 1,239.88 meters on the far side of the moon. The Chang'e-4 probe, launched on December 8, 2018, made the first-ever soft landing on the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon on Jan 3, 2019. The Chang'e-4 lander and the rover Yutu-2 have been working for more than three years on the far side of the moon, collecting over 3,800 Gigabyte of scientific data.

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