This star is going to the moon

Chapter 409: The American Perseverance rover lands on Mars, while the Chinese have three "Yutu" lunar rovers on the moon.
With Lu Yun stirring things up in this life's entertainment industry, many things are quite different from the previous life.

He has few works, but every single one of them is a huge hit!

Let's not even talk about "So Young 2: Never Gone," that was entirely Wu Fan's fault for signing the "prison-themed" film.

After "To You", Rowoon embarked on a series of blockbuster hits.

For example, the third male lead in "Wolf Warrior 2" grossed nearly 60 billion yuan, which can be said to have directly raised the box office of domestic films to an absurd level.

Incidentally, it also caused some people to develop "Wolf Warrior PTSD".

Although PTSD was mainly watched because of the lead actor Wu Jing, Lu Yun, a supporting actor, was also affected.

However, the film that followed was "How Long Will I Love U," a low-budget romantic comedy directed by a newcomer and starring Lu Yun and An Fangfei. The film, which did not receive any salary but only received a share of the profits, grossed over 15 billion yuan.

That was in 2018, and the box office of over 15 billion yuan was among the top-grossing domestic films of the year.

As Lu Yun's fame grew and the two showed their affection for each other, the number of views for "How Long Will I Love U" on various video websites continued to increase.

Then there was "Hello Mr. Billionaire," in which Rowoon made a cameo appearance, which also became a box office hit.

In 2019, the ultimate explosion of "The Wandering Earth" and the dubbed "Ne Zha" arrived, with both films grossing over 6 billion yuan!
During this period, there were also the three consecutive seasons of the variety show "Longing for Life" and the hit TV series "You Are My Glory".

Regardless of whether Lu Yun is lucky, truly carries the box office, or is simply attracting attention through external factors, he never flops; every film he's involved in is a hit.

Investors want to invest in the projects he's involved in, and directors want to invite him to star in their film and television productions.

Actors and celebrities, regardless of whether they are rivals or have spoken ill of Lu Yun behind his back, all want to work with him.

However, Lu Yun rarely takes on acting roles, and his output is extremely limited, so they don't even have the opportunity to collaborate.

It wasn't that Lu Yun was too lazy and wanted to be a couch potato like his girlfriend An Fangfei; it was precisely because he was too busy.

These are what the entertainment industry calls "external factors".

Although Lu Yun has few works and doesn't participate much in entertainment industry activities, his influence on the entertainment industry is considerable.

Works related to him are guaranteed to be popular, while works without him naturally receive less attention.

Fortunately, the special effects produced by his subsidiary, Blue Star Crafts, are quite excellent, which can greatly improve the quality and popularity of his films.

Films like "A Writer's Odyssey" and "New Gods: Nezha Reborn" released during this year's Spring Festival are examples of this, and their special effects were even done by companies all over the country.

Others might not know, but Lu Yun knew that their box office was much higher than in his previous life.

The special effects for "The Yin-Yang Master" were done by four countries, with the most important effects being handled by companies from the US and the UK.

Well, the subject matter is still drawn from everyday life, resulting in a style that's neither entirely Chinese nor entirely Western.

Most of those flops in fantasy films have similar setups.

Viewers can easily analyze this and conclude that "The Yin-Yang Master" is bound to flop, but for some reason, the director, stars, investors and the like just can't see it.

And I don't know if it's part of the film's promotion, but some media outlets are analyzing it.

Despite having top-tier resources, "The Yin-Yang Master" struggled to break through, making domestic fantasy films the biggest losers of the Spring Festival season.

It's said that "The Yin-Yang Master" has an investment of 6 million yuan, has been polished for 4 years, has more than 2000 special effects shots, more than 700 digital characters, and invited professional teams from multiple countries to handle the production.

Besides the special effects, the art direction, music, and voice acting are all top-notch productions.

Even the cast had a head start, especially the lead actors Chen Kun and Zhou Xun.

Despite this setup, the film still flopped, ranking last in both critical reception and box office revenue during the Spring Festival season.

Even when the media offered their reflections, they didn't use the correct idioms, giving a comment that the reputation was "barely satisfactory."

When "The Gods and Demons" first opened, it had just over 6 points, but now it has dropped to just over 5 points.

You call this barely satisfactory?

"差强人意" means "generally satisfactory". This should be at least a 7 out of 10, right?

Anyway, after analyzing for a long time, I still couldn't get to the point.

This has led many to suspect that the director, stars, and investors never intended to make money from the box office in the first place, but rather to make money from other sources.

However, the Spring Festival film season is over, and now people's attention is focused on the successful maiden flight of the Long March 10 rocket and the two lunar rovers it launched.

So many people say that the Long March 10 is related to manned lunar landing, so it must be related.

Now that the maiden flight has been successful, the manned lunar landing project is probably just around the corner.

Didn't you see they've sent new lunar rovers up to pave the way?
The last lunar rover launch was three years ago, with Chang'e 4.

As for Chang'e 5, that was four years ago!

Because the presence of Lu Yun disturbed the timeline, preventing the Long March 5 rocket from reaching a "zero" state, Chang'e 5 was launched a year earlier than Chang'e 4.

Of course, while it's said that the timeline was disrupted, the original order of the Chang'e project was that Chang'e 5 was launched before Chang'e 4.

In my previous life, the Long March 5 rocket encountered a problem, and the "zeroing out" research took two and a half years.

This has delayed many major space missions by at least two years.

In this life, Lu Yun simply brought them back on track!

However, the "Wu Gang" 1 probe is still flying towards the moon. Before that, there was news about the American Perseverance Mars rover.

On the 19th, Chinese netizens woke up to news reports that the American Perseverance rover had landed in Jezero Crater on Mars.

The landing module, which encloses the Mars rover, first separates from the orbiter. After entering the atmosphere, it deploys its parachute at a predetermined altitude and jettisons its heavy heat-insulating base after slowing down.

After reaching the second predetermined altitude, the "Sky Crane" and the Mars rover detached from the landing module, and the "Sky Crane" activated its retro-rockets to further decelerate.

When the rover is 20 meters above the designated landing area, the "sky crane" releases nylon ropes to lower it to the ground.

Once it sensed that the rover had landed, it cut the ropes, and the "aerial crane" autonomously flew diagonally away from the rover, self-destructing several hundred meters away.

(Image of a "sky crane" style landing)
The one-ton Perseverance rover landed safely on Mars, becoming the fifth rover safely delivered to the Martian surface by the United States.

It is also the second operational Mars rover currently in existence.

Another operational Mars rover is of similar class, weighing 900 kilograms, and the Curiosity rover, which landed nine years ago.

As for the other three vehicles, they were already covered by sand.

The reason why the Perseverance rover landed so quickly after entering Mars orbit is because the Americans are already quite familiar with the technology and procedures for landing on Mars.

This is the first time that China has sent a probe into Mars orbit, so the landing needs to be handled carefully.

So we'll have to wait until May.

But that's okay. While Chinese people may not be familiar with Mars, they are very familiar with the Moon.

The next day, the "Wu Gang" probe entered lunar orbit.

One day later, "Wu Gang 1" changed its orbit from a highly elliptical orbit to a near-circular orbit and began searching for land.

On the 23rd, the "Wu Gang" No. 1 lander landed smoothly on the edge of the Sharkton crater at the south pole of the moon.

After a simple self-check, the solar panels of the lander and rover deployed, and the two rovers, one large and one small, traveled along the deployed ramp track to the lunar surface.

"Yutu-3" and "Yutu-4" became the fourth and fifth lunar rovers sent to the moon by China and Laos.

At this moment, the number of lunar rovers active on the moon by the Chinese has reached three!

(End of this chapter)