外国媒体高度评价中国玉兔登月

外媒认为，尽管中国的探月活动比美国和前苏联晚了数十年，但是，中国人能够根据自己划定的时间表，有步骤的实现‘绕，登，回’的登月计划，却是世界唯一的。再过10-20年，中国将直接挑战美国和俄国，在某些方面，还会超越前两者。

在玉兔脱离嫦娥三号探测器之前，两者必须在离月球表面数百米的高空背离地球视线12分钟。当玉兔和嫦娥三号探测器脱离以后，两者互相拍照，同时传送到地球的空间控制系统。另外，玉兔刚登上月球，太阳翼立马打开，通过获取太阳能来满足其动力需要。

这里有的技术，尤其是照相和太阳能技术，是前苏联和美国当年没法对比的。

玉兔将在月球表面活动3个月，嫦娥三号将配合绕月1年，两者所收获的资料，将使人类对月球的资源和其它情况有更深刻的了解，也为中国今后的载人登月计划提供必要的技术数据。

2020年，中国将建设太空站，为载人登月提供前提保证。

中国有计划，准确的技术进步定位，让发达国家另眼相看，估计今后的技术进步，在许多方面还会超越美国和前苏联。总之，中国崛起的力量不容忽视。

中国现在要做的就是民生建设，不要走前苏联的老路，技术发展了，人们生活不能得到同步的改善。希望习李新政，在带领国家技术进步的同时，确实落实三中全会的《决定》精神，在经济发展的同时，保护环境，降低腐败，改善社会公平和公义，让技术进步和经济发展的成果更多更公平的惠及全体人民，只有这样，中华民族的复兴大业才是完美的，实现全面小康的中国梦，才是美好的。

附件：China rover leaves its mark on moon

1 hour ago By Press Association

China's first moon rover has touched the lunar surface and left deep traces on its loose soil, state media reported, several hours after the country successfully carried out the world's first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades.

The 140kg (300lb) Jade Rabbit rover separated from the much larger landing vehicle early today, about seven hours after the unmanned Chang'e 3 space probe touched down on a fairly flat, Earth-facing part of the moon.

The rover and lander are expected to take photos of each other and start their own scientific explorations. The six-wheeled rover will survey the moon's geological structure and surface and look for natural resources for three months, while the lander will carry out scientific explorations at the landing site for one year.

The mission marks the next stage in an ambitious space programme that aims to eventually put a Chinese astronaut on the moon. China's space plans are an enormous source of pride for the country, the third to carry out a lunar soft landing - which does not damage the craft and the equipment it carries - after the United States and the former Soviet Union. The last one was by the Soviet Union in 1976.

"It's still a significant technological challenge to land on another world," said Peter Bond, consultant editor for Jane's Space Systems and Industry. "Especially somewhere like the moon, which doesn't have an atmosphere so you can't use parachutes or anything like that. You have to use rocket motors for the descent and you have to make sure you go down at the right angle and the right rate of descent and you don't end up in a crater on top of a large rock."

Yesterday evening, state-run China Central Television showed a computer-generated image of the Chang'e 3 lander's path as it approached the surface of the moon, saying that during the 12-minute landing period it needed to have no contact with Earth. As it was just hundreds of metres away, the lander's camera broadcast images of the moon's surface.

The Chang'e 3's solar panels, which are used to absorb sunlight to generate power, opened soon after the landing.

The Chang'e mission blasted off from southwest China on December 2 on a Long March-3B carrier rocket.

The Chang'e 3 mission is named after a mythical Chinese goddess of the moon and the Yutu rover, or Jade Rabbit in English, is the goddess' pet.

China's military-backed space programme has made methodical progress in a relatively short time, although it lags far behind the United States and Russia in technology and experience.

China sent its first astronaut into space in 2003, becoming the third nation after Russia and the United States to achieve manned space travel independently. In 2006, it sent its first probe to the moon. China plans to open a space station around 2020 and send an astronaut to the moon after that.

"They are taking their time with getting to know about how to fly humans into space, how to build space stations ... how to explore the solar system, especially the moon and Mars," Mr Bond said.

"They are making good strides, and I think over the next 10-20 years they'll certainly be rivalling Russia and America in this area and maybe overtaking them in some areas."