On Sunday, December 1, 2013 1:23:44 PM UTC-8, wrote:
"China's first-ever mission to land a rover on the moon has begun its

journey to the lunar frontier.



Riding atop a modified Long March 3B rocket, China's Chang'e 3 moon

lander and its rover Yutu toward the moon at 1:30 a.m. Monday (Dec. 2)

local time from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the country's

Sichuan province. It was 12:30 p.m. EST (1730 GMT) on Dec. 1 at launch

time.



If the probe continues on track, Chang'e 3 will land on the lunar

surface by mid-December, becoming the first spacecraft to touch down

on the moon in more than 37 years. The moon landing mission was the

former Soviet Union's robotic Luna 24 sample return mission in 1976."



See:



http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-1st-moo...190716529.html

A 120 kg rover isn't representing all that much mass, operating on 6 treads and at 1/6th gravity should represent roughly half the surface loading as that of an Apollo astronaut.