DARK SIDE OF THE MOON: China’s Chang’e 6 Probe Returns to Earth Bringing for the First Time Rock and Soil Samples From Our Satellite’s Far Side
The shadow space race for the Moon keeps unabated, with multiple countries sending probes and spaceships to Earth’s satellite, signaling a spike in interest on the economic exploration of the seemingly vast Lunar resources.
It now surfaces that China’s Chang’e 6 probe has returned to Earth today (25), carrying with it rock and soil samples from the virtually-unknown far side of the moon.
The probe landed safely back in the Mongolia region of China.
Associated Press reported:
“While past U.S. and Soviet missions have collected samples from the moon’s near side, the Chinese mission was the first to collect samples from the far side.
Chinese scientists anticipate the samples will include 2.5-million-year-old volcanic rock and other material that scientists hope will answer questions about differences between the moon’s two sides.”
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The Moon side we get to see every night here from Planet Earth is called the ‘near side’ – and it so happens that the moon orbits us in a way in which this same side is always facing us.
