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China Lands Spacecraft on Far Side of Moon for Sample Retrieval

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China successfully landed an uncrewed spacecraft, Chang'e-6, on the far side of the moon on Sunday. The landing module touched down in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, a gigantic impact crater on the moon's space-facing side. This mission marks the sixth in China's Chang'e Moon exploration program and is designed to collect samples from the rarely explored area of the moon. The probe will be the first to retrieve samples from this region, which has never been explored by any country before.

  1. Open University
    1. This means the new samples could have preserved details of the chemistry and history for a region of the moon's sub-surface we haven't had access to before. This will then tell us information on how the surface of the moon formed and may be about the impactor that formed the South Pole-Aitken basin.
  2. China National Space Administration
    1. The payloads carried by the Chang'e-6 lander will work as planned and carry out scientific exploration missions.

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sources

  1. 1.ABC News (Australia)
  2. 2.Le Monde
  3. 3.Al Jazeera
  4. 4.The Guardian
  5. 5.The Washington Post
  6. 6.The Times of India
  7. 7.The New York Times
  8. 8.BBC
  9. 9.The Korea Herald
  10. 10.France 24
  11. 11.CTV News
  12. 12.CCTV

perspectives

  1. 1.Aerospace Industry
  2. 2.Space Race
  3. 3.Astronomy
  4. 4.Chinese space industry

countries

  1. 1.CanadaCA
  2. 2.ChinaCN
  3. 3.IrelandIE
  4. 4.IndiaIN
  5. 5.JapanJP
  6. 6.Russian FederationRU
  7. 7.SingaporeSG
  8. 8.United StatesUS

organizations

  1. 1.China National Space Administration
  2. 2.National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationUS
  3. 3.University of Manchester
  4. 4.Boeing CoUS
  5. 5.China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation
  6. 6.Open University
  7. 7.SpaceXUS
  8. 8.University of Oxford

persons

  1. 1.Xi JinpingCN
  2. 2.Elon MuskUS
  3. 3.Huang Wu
  4. 4.John Pernet-Fisher
  5. 5.Katherine Joy
  6. 6.Mahesh Anand
  7. 7.Martin Barstow
  8. 8.Neil Bowles
  9. 9.Simeon BarberGB
  10. 10.Yan Zhuang
  11. 11.Yusaku Maezawa

technicals

  1. 1.South Pole-Aitken Basin
  2. 2.Chang'e-6
  3. 3.Moon
  4. 4.Chang'e 5
  5. 5.Artemis 1
  6. 6.Wenchang Space Launch Center
  7. 7.Long March-5 YB
  8. 8.Mars
  9. 9.Tiangong-1
  10. 10.Apollo
  11. 11.Artemis
  12. 12.Oceanus Procellarum