Name: China successfully lands spacecraft on moon to retrieve lunar rocks
Uploaded: 2020-12-03T19:15:46.000Z
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China has successfully landed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon surface and historic mission for the country to retrieve rock samples, according to state media.

The Chang E five probe will attempt to collect £4.5 of samples in a previously unvisited area, a massive lava plain known as the ocean of storms.

If the mission is completed as planned, it would make China only the third nation to have retrieved lunar samples after the United States and the Soviet Union.

State broadcaster CCTV said it would start collecting samples on the lunar surface in the next two days.

Those would then be transferred to a return capsule for the trip back to Earth landing in China's Inner Mongolia region.

China made its first lunar landing in 2013 in January last year.

 The Chang E four probe touched down on the far side of the moon, the first space probe from any nation to do so. 