China's Chang'e-4 lander and "Yutu-2" lunar rover have woke up at 6:57 am on February 18 and 17:55 on February 17, respectively to enter the fifteenth lunar day work period.
At present, it is confirmed that the equipment is in good condition and the working conditions are normal, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
The lunar rover will move northwest and then southwest, and synchronously drive and detect at the new target point. The fifteenth day of the work will be carried out as planned.
At present, the "Yutu-2" lunar rover travels a total of 367.25 meters on the moon.
The exploration of the moon and the aerospace engineering center adhere to both epidemic prevention and control and business work.
This year, China's first Mars exploration mission, Chang'e-5 lunar sampling return mission and other major engineering tasks will be implemented, the administration said.
The Chang'e-4 probe, launched on Dec. 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.
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