Progress in China's Lunar Exploration Program

Chang'E-1 and Chang'E-2 of China's Lunar Exploration Program(CLEP) have successfully achieved their mission.At the present time,only Chang'E-3 is still in operation,which was successfully launched on December 2,2013.Chang'E-3 probe is the third robotic lunar mission of CLEP,which consists of a lander and a rover,with eight payloads on board the spacecraft.Up to December 21,2015,more than 2.86 TB raw data were received from these instruments onboard Chang'E-3 probe.A series of research results have been achieved.This paper gives a detailed introduction to the new scientific results obtained from Chang'E-3 missions.