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The Chang'e 6 mission landed on the southern hemisphere of the lunar far side to gather more material. Specifically, the landing segment of the Chang'e 6 mission touched down in a relatively flat area lying in the southern portion of the Apollo crater, which itself lies within the larger South Pole-Aitken (SPA
China’s Chang’e-6 lunar lander successfully touched down on the far side of the moon Sunday morning Beijing time, in a significant step for the ambitious mission that could advance the country ...
The Chang'e-6 craft, equipped with an array of tools and its own launcher, touched down in a gigantic impact crater called the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the moon's space-facing side at 6:23 a.m ...
The Chang’e 6 lander collected 2 kg of lunar material using a scoop and a drill which was then launched aboard the ascender to the mission’s orbiter. Chang’e 6 return capsule landing in ...
Chang'e 6: CNSA: 3 May 2024 sample return operational [33] First sample-return from the South Pole–Aitken basin on the far side of the Moon. [34] [35] CHANG-E-6 [33] [36] Chang'e 6 Lander: CNSA: 1 June 2024 - success Obtained lunar sample and placed on ascent vehicle; conducted radar studies of underground structure Chang'e 6 Ascender: CNSA
China's Chang'e 6 probe returned on Earth with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first. “I now declare that the Chang’e 6 Lunar Exploration ...
The satellite was deployed from the Chang'e 6 lunar orbiter stack in at 08:14 UTC (13:14 PKT) on 8 May 2024 and had undergone testing for the first few days with the first images being expected around 15-16 May 2024.
The progress of Chang’e-6 – China’s most technically complex mission to date – has been followed with intense interest within the country since its launch on May 3.