Chang'e-3 success sparks star-gazing craze_美文

Chang'e-3 success sparks star-gazing craze

All the materials in the telescope were bought from the market, such as plastic tubes from the building-materials market and a viewfinder taken from a toy gun.

"I had seen some pictures of the moon before, but I did not feel them to be magic until I saw those craters through my own telescope. This is amazing," Yu Shifan, one of the telescope's makers, told China News Service.

The three men are planning to produce a wide-angle telescope to observe further into the space.

Another amateur astronomer, 33-year-old Chen Tao from Suzhou, Jiangsu province, started building a private observatory at the Tibet autonomous region's Ngari prefecture in late November.

Based at an altitude of 5,100 meters, the telescope will have good observation weather 300 days a year. When construction is complete, Chen will be able to control devices at the observatory via computer from his home in Suzhou.

Questions:

1. When did Chang-e 3 land on the moon?

2. What is the name of the six-wheeled moonrover?

3. Where is amateur astronomer Chen Tao from?

Answers:

1. December 14.

2. Yutu.

3. Suzhou, Jiangsu province.

About the broadcaster:

Lance Crayon is a videographer and editor with China Daily. Since living in Beijing he has worked for China Radio International (CRI) and Global Times. Before moving to China he worked in the film industry in Los Angeles as a talent agent and producer. He has a B.A. in English from the University of Texas at Arlington.