China on Wednesday released video footage showing its Change-5 robotic spacecraft landing on the moon. Running around the landscape sprinkled with craters on Tuesday, the camera pauses for a moment before the ephemeral collapse begins. Soon after, the moon’s dust spray and Lander’s shadow indicated that the probe’s touchdown was a success.
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The lander landed, as planned, on Tuesday at 10:11 a.m. Eastern time in a lunar region known as Mons ü Capricorn. The spacecraft is in the center of the basalt lava field, about two billion years younger than parts of the moon, discovered more than four decades ago by NASA’s Apollo astronauts and the Soviet Union’s robotic Luna Landro.
Within hours of arriving on the moon, Change-5 will set out drilling and scooping on its lunar samples.
Images of Chang-5 show a desolate landscape with humble rolling hills. The lack of nearby craters points to the youth of the area.
Scientists are curious about how the field melted much longer than the rest of the moon. Examination of these rocks in laboratories on Earth will also reduce their exact age, and it will calibrate the method of planetary scientists to determine the age of the planets, the moon and other body surfaces of the solar system.
The lander has completed its drilling and stored the sample. It continues to bind some of the soil around the spacecraft. Once it’s done, half of the lander will explode back into the top space, just like on Thursday. That would be the beginning of a complex sequence of rocks back to Earth.
After it reached lunar orbit over the weekend, Chang-5 split in two. When the lander ascended to the surface, the other half remained in orbit.
