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A Chinese lunar capsule returned to Earth on Thursday with the first fresh rock samples from the moon in more than 40 years, offering the possibility of new insights into the history of the solar system and marking a new landmark for China’s rapidly advancing space program.
The capsule of the Chang’e 5 probe landed just before 2 a.m. Thursday Beijing time in the Siziwang district of the Inner Mongolia region, the China National Space Administration reported.
The capsule had earlier separated from its orbiter module and performed a bounce off Earth’s atmosphere to reduce its speed before passing through and floating to the ground on parachutes. Following recovery, the capsule and its cargo of samples were flown to the space program’s campus in Beijing to begin the process of disassembly and analysis, the space administration said.
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The Chinese lunar probe lifted off from the moon Thursday night with a cargo of lunar samples on the first stage of its return to Earth, state media reported.
A Chinese lunar capsule returned to Earth on Thursday with the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years. The capsule of the Changâe 5 probe landed just before 2 a.m. (1800 GMT Wednesday) in the Siziwang district of the Inner Mongolia region, state media said.
The capsule earlier separated from its orbiter module and performed a bounce off Earthâs atmosphere to reduce its speed before passing through and floating to the ground on parachutes.
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Chang e-5 spacecraft blasting off from the lunar surface. The Chinese spacecraft carrying the country s first lunar samples blasted off from the moon on December 3, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced (XINHUA)
A Chinese spacecraft carrying the country s first lunar samples blasted off from the moon at 11:10 p.m. (Beijing Time) on December 3, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced.
It represented the first-ever Chinese spacecraft to take off from an extraterrestrial body.
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Chang e-5 probe, comprising an orbiter, a lander, an ascender, and a returner, was launched on Nov. 24, and its lander-ascender combination touched down on the north of the Mons Rumker in Oceanus Procellarum, also known as the Ocean of Storms, on the near side of the moon on December 1.
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