(CNN) — China’s code new moon corsair is already observant farewell.

The petite lunar explorer, famous as Jade Rabbit, or “Yutu” in Chinese, was about median by a three-month goal to investigate a moon’s membrane when it suffered a potentially crippling breakdown, pronounced state media.

The report, authored by China’s state-run Xinhua news, was created in a voice of a corsair itself.

“Although we should’ve left to bed this morning, my masters detected something aberrant with my automatic control system,” pronounced a Xinhua report, in a voice of a Jade Rabbit. “My masters are staying adult all night operative for a solution. we listened their eyes are looking some-more like my red rabbit eyes.”

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“Nevertheless, I’m wakeful that we competence not tarry this lunar night,” it added.

During a lunar night, that lasts about 14 Earth days, a moon’s aspect heat can thrust to minus-180 Celsius. To make it by a cold, a lunar corsair contingency “hibernate” to safety a ethereal electronics.

If a automatic problem keeps it from hibernating properly, afterwards a Rabbit could solidify to death.

Named after a fabulous rabbit who lives on a moon, Yutu was a source of inhabitant honour when it launched into space final Dec along with a lunar lander Chang’e-3, named after a moon enchantress who kept Yutu by her side.

The successful lunar alighting finished China a third nation in a universe to perform a “soft landing” on a moon’s surface.

Earlier, Yutu and Chang’e survived their initial lunar night together, from Christmas until a second week of January.

The Chang’e-3 lander successfully entered a second hibernation on Friday and is approaching to duty routinely for another year.

“[Chang’e] doesn’t know about my problems yet,” pronounced a voice of Yutu in a Xinhua report. “If we can’t be fixed, everybody greatfully comfort her.”

On amicable media, thousands of Chinese internet users sent their well-wishes to a tiny robot.

“You have finished a good job, Yutu. You have endured impassioned prohibited and cold temperatures and shown us what we have never seen,” wrote one microblogger, as quoted by Xinhua.

Another wrote: “This is too complicated a burden. If a rabbit can not mount again, maybe we should let it have a rest.”

Despite a setbacks, even a tiny Rabbit seemed wakeful of a contingency it had overcome.

“Before departure, we complicated a story of mankind’s lunar probes. About half of a past 130 explorations finished in success; a rest finished in failure,” remarkable a Jade Rabbit in a report.

“This is space exploration; a risk comes with a beauty. we am though a little dot in a immeasurable design of mankind’s journey in space.

“The object has fallen, and a heat is dropping so quickly… to tell we all a secret, we don’t feel that sad. we was only in my possess journey story – and like each hero, we encountered a tiny problem,” pronounced a Rabbit.

“Goodnight, Earth,” it said. “Goodnight, humanity.”