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Officials prepare to recover the landing module of the Chang’e-6 moon probe after it landed in Inner Mongolia, in northern China on June 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP On June 25, Chinese personnel picked up a 300-kg cannister from the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region; it contained two fistfuls of soil and rocks. The event…
The Chang’e-6 probe was launched on May 3 from the southern island of Hainan. BEIJING: China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe landed on Tuesday in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, making the country the first to bring back samples from the moon’s far side. The reentry capsule touched down at 2:07 p.m. Beijing time (0607…
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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a replay screen shows Chang’e-6 probe collecting samples on the moon surface, at Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) in Beijing, on June 4, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP China says a spacecraft carrying rock and soil samples from the far side of the moon has lifted off…
File picture of the lunar lander of the Chang’e-4 probe in a photo taken in 2019. | Photo Credit: AP China on May 3 launched a lunar probe mission to collect samples for the first time from the far side of the moon and bring them to Earth for scientific studies. The Chang’e-6 mission is…
Plans for China’s “space dream” have been put into overdrive under Xi Jinping. (File) Wenchang, China: China is set Friday to launch a probe to collect samples from the far side of the Moon, a world first as Beijing pushes ahead with an ambitious programme that aims to send a crewed lunar mission by 2030….
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