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China has shared a look at the first moon samples to be brought back to Earth in more than 45 years.
The lunar regolith was collected by the nation s Chang e 5 mission that returned in December with 3.8 pounds of soil and rocks from our natural satellite.
The images show the samples as small as dust particles up to larger chunks, along with samples inside a crystal container that will go on display at the National Museum of China.
The container is designed like a ritual Chinese wine vessel, or zun, and holds the lunar dust within a hallow sphere that represents both the moon and the Chang 5 re-entry capsule.
America may not have won World War II and landed on the moon later if not for the contributions of a brilliant Chinese scientist named Qian Xuesen.
Fearing communist presence after the war, the U.S., however, deported Qian to China, clueless that he would eventually spearhead programs that would target American troops and eventually propel China into space.
Qian Xuesen. Image via CCTV
Born to well-educated parents in 1911, it was evident from an early age that Qian had superior intellect. He graduated at the top of his class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and won a scholarship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
January 22, 2021
China’s Chang’e 5 moon mission successfully returned moon rocks to Earth in December 2020 for the first time in 45 years. It’s now headed toward an Earth-sun Lagrange point, with the goal of making sun observations.
ChinaDaily reported this week (January 20, 2021) that the Chang’e 5 moon craft – which on December 16-17 dropped off its return capsule, returning moon rocks to Earth for the first time since 1976 – is now on a new mission to observe the sun. That’s after an earlier report on December 22, saying the same thing. The news may be that mission engineers originally overestimated the amount of fuel remaining to Chang’e. In December, they were estimating 440 pounds (200 kg) of fuel left. Now, as explained in the video above, space engineers are reporting just 220 pounds (100 kg) of fuel remaining. The fuel is needed to insert Chang’e into an orbit at an Earth-sun Lagrange point (L1) when it arrives there in mid-March.
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