Science
China’s Chang’e 5 mission lands on Moon to retrieve lunar samples – ABC News
China’s Chang’e 5 robot probe lands on the Moon and prepares to begin collecting rock sample, in the latest move in a program which could end up with a Chinese…
A Chinese robot probe has successfully landed on the Moon, the Chinese Government has announced.
- The uncrewed mission aims to collect lunar samples from an area called the Ocean of Storms
- The samples will help scientists learn more about the Moon’s origins
- If successful, it would make China only the third nation to retrieve lunar samples
The probe is on a mission to retrieve samples of the rocks and dirt on the Moon’s surface.
The probe adds to a string of increasingly ambitious operations by China’s…
Continue Reading
