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The Chang-5 probe, released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Tuesday, successfully landed near the moon.
With Ch at the top of the space probe, its lander made a touchdown at eleven o’clock at night (Beijing time), becoming the third Chinese probe to successfully land a soft landing on the moon. He has sent back footage of the moment he landed.
Footage of the landing moments sent back by Change-5
Footage of landing moments sent back by Change-5
Over the next two days, the lander will collect about two kilograms of lunar samples.
The Chang-5 test includes a lander, climber, orbiter and returner. After the spacecraft entered a circular lunar orbit 200 kilometers above the moon, the lander and ascending pair split, landed, and landed in the planned area on the moon.
The lander will shovel some surface material and drill a two-meter deep hole and cut the ground out of it, which will act like a lunar archive, with recording data at the bottom a billion years ago and reflecting the current day closer to the top.
The specimens will then be stored ascending, which will lift the lunar specimens from the lunar surface from the lunar surface to transfer them to the waiting and orbit. Unmanned rendering and docking in lunar orbit will also be the first of its kind by China.
Then, at the right time, the returner will detach from the orbiter and take the samples to Earth, which will eventually arrive in northern China’s Inner Mongolia.
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Once completed, the Change-5 probe will be part of the world’s first unmanned sampling return mission from the moon in 40 years, and to China The third country in the world to return lunar samples after the US and the former Soviet Union.
The Chang-5 investigation was launched in the early morning of November 24th. It is one of China’s most complex and challenging space missions so far, contributing to scientific studies in areas such as lunar formation and evolution.
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(CGTN’s Liu Hui also contributed to the report.)
