China’s Chang’e-5 Probe Drops Off Moon Samples at the Climax of a Historic Mission
China’s Chang’e-5 Probe Drops Off Moon Samples at the Climax of a Historic Mission
By Alan Boyle
December 17, 2020 at 02:18AM
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By Alan Boyle
A Chinese probe has delivered the first samples to be collected from the Moon in more than 40 years, and its mission isn’t done yet. The Chang’e-5 sample return capsule floated down to the snowy plains of Inner Mongolia, capping an odyssey that began less than a month ago with the launch of a nine-ton …
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