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1 day ago · China's Chang'e 6 lander touched down on the far side of the moon earlier this month, and the lunar material it collected has now been delivered back to Earth for research. By Jack Knudson. Jun 28, 2024 6:00 AM. In this image, the near side of the moon appears on the left, with large, flat plains (called lunar maria) represented by the dark shapes.
3 days ago · “Chang’e-6 is the first mission in human history to return samples from the far side of the moon,” Long Xiao, a planetary geologist at China University of Geosciences, tells the New York ...
3 days ago · China’s latest robotic probe, called Chang’e 6, landed on the far side of the moon. That’s a much more challenging task because the far side faces away from our planet and there’s no ...
3 days ago · BANGKOK (AP) — China’s Chang’e 6 probe returned on Earth with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first. The probe landed in the Inner Mongolian ...
4 days ago · 162. A small spacecraft landed in Inner Mongolia on Tuesday, bringing samples from the far side of the Moon back to Earth. This was not China's first robotic mission to return a few pounds of dust ...
3 days ago · CCTV Screenshot by NPR. The Chang'e 6 capsule landed in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia on Tuesday. A Chinese probe has returned to Earth carrying the first samples ever taken from the far side of the moon. Chinese state television broadcast images Tuesday of the capsule holding the samples, as it floated down under parachute onto the ...
4 days ago · A Chinese probe carrying samples from the far side of the Moon returned to Earth on Tuesday, capping a technically complex 53-day mission heralded as a world first.
