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The Chinese Chang’i-Five spacecraft has returned to Earth with a collection of lunar rock and soil samples.
This is the first time since the 1970s that a lunar spacecraft has returned to Earth with a sample of the moon, Reuters reported Thursday.
China’s state news agency, citing the China National Space Administration Xinhua The moon landed in the northern state of Inner Mongolia this morning Chinese local time.
China launched the Chang’e-Five spacecraft on November 24. It landed on the moon in early December.
If the mission is fully successful, China will be the third country to collect lunar samples after the United States and the former Soviet Union.
The mission was planned to collect two kilograms of samples from the moon, the news report said. However, how much has been brought in has not yet been revealed.
Chinese President Xi Jinping thanked all concerned for the success of the lunar mission.
Brad Jolly, Director of the McDonnell Center for Space Sciences at the University of Washington AP‘Who said:’ This soil and this stone brought from the moon are an invaluable resource. I salute the Chinese scientists for making this difficult mission a success. Much information can be obtained by analyzing these soils and rocks.
“My hope is that the scientists can do the analytical work correctly,” he added.
