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Module landing moment
The unmanned station of the People’s Republic of China Chang’e-5 has completed the work of collecting soil in the upper layer of rock on the lunar surface. The samples will be shipped to Earth soon.
The Chinese automatic station module Chang’e-5 successfully collected lunar soil samples and took off with them from the surface of the Earth’s satellite. The orbital module is now scheduled to dock with Chang’e-5, which will deliver it a capsule with ground, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on Thursday, December 3.
In the coming days, the device will deliver samples to Earth.
If successful, China will become the third country in the world after the United States and Russia to deliver lunar soil to Earth, and the first to implement such a project since 1976.
On Tuesday, December 1, it was known that the Chinese Chang’e-5 aircraft successfully landed on the western part of the visible side of the Moon for the subsequent collection of data and soil samples.
On Wednesday, the device drilled into the soil of the moon, extracted rock samples from a depth of two meters, using a manipulator arm, collected the soil from the surface. It should be noted that the module was supposed to collect a total of about two kilograms of geological rock.
Chang’e-5 was launched by the Changzheng-5 (Long March 5) launch vehicle on November 23. He must return to Earth on December 16.
From China # ChangE5 probe has collected samples from the moon’s surface. This video captures the moment the spacecraft lands on the moon. #exclusive pic.twitter.com/wp3Sdu1CNc
– China Xinhua News (@XHNews) December 2, 2020
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