The China National Space Administration has just released all of the images from their recent moon landing. There are now hundreds of never-before-scene true color, high definition photographs of the lunar surface available for download.

Yutu Rover / Image Courtesy of Chinese Academy of Sciences / China National Space Administration / The Science and Application Center for Moon and Deepspace Exploration / Emily Lakdawalla

The images were taken a few years ago by cameras on China’s Chang’e 3 lander and Yutu rover. In Dec 2013, China joined Russia and the United States when they successfully soft-landed on the lunar surface, becoming the third country ever to accomplish this feat. It was the first soft-landing on the moon in 37 years, since the Russians landed their probe back in 1976.

Anyone can create a user account on China’s Science & Application Center for Moon and Deepspace Exploration website to download the pictures themselves.

Yutu rover tracks / Image courtesy of Chinese Academy of Sciences / China National Space Administration / The Science and Application Center for Moon and Deepspace Exploration / Emily Lakdawalla

Chang’e 3 lunar landing location / Image courtesy of NASA

 

[via techcrunch]