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China: Moon probe preparing to return rock samples to Earth – New Delhi Times
China said Thursday its latest lunar probe has finished taking samples of the moon’s surface and sealed them within the spacecraft for return to Earth, the first…
China said Thursday its latest lunar probe has finished taking samples of the moons surface and sealed them within the spacecraft for return to Earth, the first time such a mission has been attempted by any country in more than 40 years.
The Change 5, the third Chinese probe to land on the moon, is the latest in a series of increasingly ambitious missions for Beijings space program, which also has a probe en route to Mars carrying a robot rover.
The Change 5 touched down Tuesday on the Sea of Storms…
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