Yutu Flexes Robot Arm then Enters Hibernation During Long Lunar Night

As night fell on the Earth's Moon, China's Yutu rover and mothership lander have both entered a state of hibernation to survive the frigidly harsh lunar night. Yutu went to sleep at 5:23 a.m. Dec. 26, Beijing Time upon a command sent by mission control at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC), according to China's […]