The Chang’e-6 space probe, named after the mythical Chinese moon goddess, launched on May 3 from Hainan Island in southern China.
It landed yesterday, Sunday, in a location that had never been explored before, in the far part of the moon that does not face the Earth.
The previous Chinese space mission, Chang’e-5, succeeded in collecting samples from the moon from the side facing Earth in December 2020, an achievement that re-stimulated global efforts to bring samples after a long hiatus of 44 years.
After landing, Chang’e-6 had 14 hours to drill, excavate, and collect up to 2 kilograms of lunar material, with the aim of being the first probe to succeed in bringing samples from the far side of the moon, or the dark side. from him,
As for the Chang’e-5 probe, which was launched in 2020, the time available for it to accomplish this mission was 21 hours.
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