BEIJING, May 3 (Xinhua) -- China launched the Chang'e-6 spacecraft on Friday to collect and return samples from the moon's mysterious far side -- the first such endeavor in the history of human lunar exploration. Before Chang'e-6, China had sent a series of lunar probes to the moon...
most of which cannot be seen from Earth, is called the far side or "dark side" of the moon. This term doesn't refer to darkness but rather to the mystery shrouding the moon's largely unexplored terrain.
See photos from China's first round-trip mission to the moon in October and November of 2014. It was China's fourth lunar mission, and one of the boldest yet.
Chang'e-7 will survey the environment and resources of the lunar South Pole, while the Chang'e-8 mission will focus on validating technologies for in-situ resource utilization on the moon, laying the foundation for the future construction of the ILRS, which is expected to be established by a...
NASA’s Apollo 16 mission in 1972 did, however, deploy an ultraviolet telescope. Its crew recovered the film, but the now-inactive instrument remains on the Moon. 中国国家航天局对此次探月计划高调的宣传,更是令这些怀疑的声音提高了调门。比如,中国国家航天局声称,如果在月球上放置一台光学望远镜,嫦娥...
Here’s how it works. Humanity just planted its flag on the far side of the moon. China's robotic Chang'e 4 mission touched down on the floor of the 115-mile-wide (186 kilometers) Von Kármán Crater Wednesday night (Jan. 2), pulling off the first-ever soft landing on the ...
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China has successfully put another probe on the Moon. Its roboticChang'e-5 missiontouched down a short while ago with the aim of collecting samples of rock and dust to bring back to Earth. The venture has targeted Mons Rümker, a high volcanic complex in a nearside region known as Oceanu...
China plans to lay the foundation for lofty space achievements including exploration of the planet Jupiter and a crewed mission to the moon. The move heats up another technological battlefront between the U.S. and China with the world's second largest economy positioning to become a space superpo...