Well, here's an underreported space exploration story

How many folks (in the US, at least) know that China has landed a rover on the Moon?

Reshared post from +Gary Ray R

Yutu Rover Rolls Onto Lunar Surface

+Emily Lakdawalla Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society has some of the best information on the historic Chinese moon rover landing. 

Her post as of  2013/12/14 03:28 CST has the video of the rover deployment. GIF below is from her blog.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/12141328-six-wheels-on-soil-for-yutu.html

And Ms. Lakdawalla's blog of the landing is 
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/12140619-change-3-has-successfully-landed.html
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Image: CNSA / CCTV / Emily Lakdawalla
Chang'e 3 rover Yutu rolls onto the lunar surface

Screen caps taken from a Chinese state television feed show the view from a side-looking camera mounted to the lander of the Yutu rover deploying from a ramp onto the surface of the Moon on December 14, 2013