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China’s Chang’e-5 mission leaves Moon’s surface – BBC News
The robotic probe lifts off from the lunar surface carrying samples of rock and dust to send to Earth.
By Jonathan AmosBBC Science Correspondent
image captionHeading back into lunar orbit with the precious samples
China has executed the next stage of its Chang’e-5 Moon mission, blasting into orbit samples gathered on the lunar surface.
Right on cue, at 15:10 GMT, an ascent vehicle lit its engine to head up to a service module that will shepherd home the rock and dust materials.
It’s more than 40 years since lunar samples were last brought back to Earth.
Chang’e-5 still has some key steps to negotiate…
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