this just out: The preliminary processing and analysis of LPR Channel-2B data from Chang’E-3
it also includes a detailed route map for Yutu

Very nice! You can make out crater rim structures that have obviously been buried for millions, if not billions, of years. That's exactly what you'd expect to see, of course, but it is cool beyond description to actually see it.

-the other Doug (With my shield, not yet upon it)

wow! an amazingly detailed paper (Phil, that's for you!): High precision landing site mapping and rover localization for Chang'e-3 mission

Yes, that's great! Very interesting.

Phil

start downloading!
the dedicated Chang'e 3 issue of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics is finally available:
http://www.raa-journal.org/raa/index.php/raa/issue/view/81

Great stuff! The second paper down that list includes some names for craters near the lander. They are taken from traditional Chinese names for constellations and parts of the sky. I will be doing something with these soon, but I'm not sure these are the same names I got a glimpse of a few months ago. Still much to learn!

Phil

a couple of new papers from CE3:
Photometric Calibration on Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope for Its First Six Months of Operation on Lunar Surface
Terrain reconstruction from Chang’E-3 PCAM images

and this was just published on arXiv
An Unprecedented Constraint on Water Content in the Sunlit Lunar Exosphere Seen by Lunar-Based Ultraviolet Telescope of Chang'e-3 Mission

CE-3 made it to Science this week:
A young multilayered terrane of the northern Mare Imbrium revealed by Chang’E-3 mission

two new preprint papers accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics:
Panoramic camera of Jade Rabbit lunar rover in Chang’E-3 mission
Laboratory verification of active particle-induced X-ray spectrometer (APXS) of Chang'E-3 mission
the first is particularly interesting

open access paper in Nature Communications
Correlated compositional and mineralogical investigations at the Chang′e-3 landing site