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Tangent about the rover names:

Cháng'é 嫦娥 is the name of a moon goddess. The apostrophe is a syllable divider; you can think of the pronunciation as "chong uh".

Yùtù 玉兔 means "jade rabbit", the rabbit in the moon who pounds medicine for 嫦娥. The rabbit (and the moon) are said to be jade, because in Chinese culture jade is white, not green.




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