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China’s spacecraft successfully brings home moon samples
Agencies
December 17, 2020
Beijing, Dec 17: China s Chang e-5 probe successfully touched down on Earth in the early hours of Thursday, bringing home the first samples of the moon in over 40 years.
The spacecraft landed in Siziwang Banner in north China s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, at 1:59 AM (local time), according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Zhang Kejian, head of the CNSA, declared the Chang e-5 mission a success.
It marks a successful conclusion of China s current three-step lunar exploration programme of orbiting and landing, and bringing back samples which began in 2004, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
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Chinese Chang e-5 spacecraft, which successfully collected soil and rocks from our
moon has safely returned. Chang e-5 is an unmanned probe that launched its first mission after four decades to gather samples from the lunar surface.
According to the Xinhua news agency, the unmanned spacecraft came back early Thursday. Xinhua said that the Chinese capsule which carried the samples from the Chang e-5 made its landing in the region of Inner Mongolia in northern China, as stated by the CNSA or China National Space Administration.
According to the
report from Xinhua, CNSA director Zhang Kejian declared that the mission was a success.
China s Chang e-5 mission a success, spacecraft brings home first moon samples in 40 years
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The spacecraft landed in Siziwang Banner in north China s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, at 1:59 AM (local time), according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
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BEIJING: China s Chang e-5 probe successfully touched down on Earth in the early hours of Thursday, bringing home the first samples of the moon in over 40 years. The spacecraft landed in Siziwang Banner in north China s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, at 1:59 AM (local time), according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Zhang Kejian, head of the CNSA, declared the Chang e-5 mission a success.
China s Chang e 5 successfully enters Earth s surface, lands in Mongolia with moon rocks in tow
When the return capsule was about 10 kilometres above land, a parachute opened and it landed smoothly, after which a search team recovered it.
Dec 17, 2020 10:11:36 IST
An unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returned safely to Earth early Thursday, completing the first mission in four decades to collect lunar samples. While scientists hope the samples will give insights into the Moon s origins and volcanic activity on its surface, the trip was also another high-profile chapter in China s bid to become a space superpower. In images broadcast on state television, a Chinese flag was flown at the snow-covered grasslands where the capsule landed in the country s remote north.