China's Jade Rabbit in Mars
SAVIDGE: China may have surprise a few people in the past 48 hours. Because it's been showing off its space program with a successful landing on the moon. Their first try no less. China's solar powered rover called Jade Rabbit is exploring the planet looking for valuable minerals. It's a robot, there are no humans. But China has even bigger plans for the future. Here's CNN's Ivan Watson.</s>IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (on camera): China's Jade Rabbit lunar recover is now exploring the moon. This vehicle detached itself from a larger chunk of three lunar probe in the early hours of Sunday Beijing time. Now, the probe itself made a historic soft, unmanned landing on the moon Saturday night, Beijing time, and it now puts China as the third country to accomplish this technological feat coming after the U.S. and Russia.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It landed on the moon.</s>WATSON: And we saw scenes of scientists from China's space agency celebrating, embracing each other, at the moment that that lunar probe made its successful landing on the moon. Now, one of the missions of this lunar probe, which is partially solar powered, it's a six-wheeled vehicle weighing about 140 kilograms, one of its missions is to explore part of the moon known as Sinus Iridum or the Bay of Rainbows. It's also tasked with looking beneath the surface of the moon using ground penetrating radar. In part, to search for possible valuable mineral deposits. Now, some experts tell CNN that they think the Chinese may be looking at the possibility at future prospecting and mining missions to the moon. The Chinese acknowledged that their space program is decades behind the U.S. and Russia, for example, but this does seem to be a part of a much bigger strategy that also involves establishing China's own global positioning system of satellites around the earth, and also building its own manned space station. That's very significant, because if everything goes according to plan, when the International Space Station is decommissioned in 2020, in the subsequent decade it will be the Chinese that will have the only manned space station orbiting around the earth. Ivan Watson, CNN, Beijing.</s>SAVIDGE: Thanks, Ivan. Dennis Rodman, he loves North Korea so much, he's going back. What his big trip means for the U.S., coming up. But next, a rich teen gets off after killing four people while driving drunk. His lawyer says he's a victim of his own privileged upbringing. Our legal team takes on this controversial case. That will be right after this.