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China returns a sample of lunar dirt to Earth – Sunday Vision
China’s first mission to return a sample of dirt from the moon that just reached Earth, along with a container of lunar rocks, Chinese state media
China’s first mission to return a sample of dirt from the moon that just reached Earth, along with a container of lunar rocks, Chinese state media confirmed. A capsule of lunar material scraped by a Chinese spacecraft landed this afternoon in the snowy Inner Mongolia, after it sank into Earth’s atmosphere and landed with a parachute on the ground.
The drop marks the end of China’s third whirlwind – And incredibly complex – A mission to the surface of the Moon, called Chang’e 5. The flight took off…
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