China’s Chang-5 successfully lands on the moon

The Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on Tuesday that the Chang-5 probe has successfully landed near the moon.

After ascending to the top of space exploration, its lander made a touchdown at 11:00 pm (Beijing time), becoming China’s third probe, successfully making a smooth landing on the moon. It has sent back footage of the moment it landed.

Over the next two days, the lander will collect two kilograms of lunar samples.

The Song-5 study includes a lander, climber, orbiter and returnee. After the spacecraft entered a circular lunar orbit 200 kilometers from the moon, the lander and ascending pair parted, landed, and landed on the moon in the planned area.

The lander will push some surface material, drill a hole two meters deep and clear the soil from the inside, which will act as the lunar archive, closely reflecting the present day with record information from a billion years ago below.

The samples will then be stored in ascending order, which will lift them off the lunar surface and return them to the lunar orbit waiting for the lunar orbit. Drone encounter and docking in lunar orbit were the first missions undertaken by China.

Then, at the right time, the returnee will detach from orbit and carry the samples back to Earth, which will eventually land in northern China’s inner Mongolia.

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When completed, the Chang-5 probe will become part of the world’s first unmanned aerial return mission from the moon in 40 years, and will make China^{It is the third country in the world to bring back lunar models after the United States and the former Soviet Union.}

The Song-5 study was launched in the early hours of November 24th. It is one of China’s most complex and challenging space missions so far, contributing to scientific research in fields such as the formation and evolution of the moon.

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(Contributed to CGTN’s Liu Hui Report.)