China’s Chang’e 5 mission lands on moon to retrieve lunar samples

A Chinese robot probe has successfully landed on the moon, the Chinese Government has announced.

It was part of a historic mission to retrieve lunar surface samples, which will help scientists learn more about the moon’s origins.

The probe adds to a string of increasingly ambitious operations by China’s space program that aims eventually to land a human on the moon.

China launched the Chang’e-5 probe on November 24.

The uncrewed mission, named after the mythical Chinese goddess of the moon,…