Far-side lunar sample return (Chang'e 6)
Retorno de muestras de la cara oculta de la Luna (Chang'e 6)
- Date
- 2024 · confidence high
- Place
- Wenchang Space Launch Site, Hainan, China
- Credited to
- China National Space Administration (CNSA)
- Field
- Movement
What was discovered
The mission collected around 1,935 g of soil from the Aitken basin on the far side and brought it back to Earth. These are the first samples from that side of the Moon.
It landed in Inner Mongolia on 25 June 2024.
What it led to
- dating of far-side volcanism
- study of the asymmetry between the Moon's two sides