BeijingChina’s Chang’e-5 probe, which successfully returned to Earth this week, recovered about 1,731 grams of samples from the moon, the Chinese Space Agency said on Saturday.
Samples were sent to the Chinese research team on the morning of Saturday (December 19).
China’s National Space Agency (CNSA) said scientists will perform the storage, analysis and research of the first domestic samples collected from alien objects.
The return capsule of the Chang’e-5 probe landed in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region early on Thursday (December 17), bringing samples collected from the moon.
The Chang’e-5 mission marks the successful conclusion of China’s current three-phase lunar exploration program, which began in 2004 in orbit and landing and bringing samples.
It was the first American attempt to take moon samples over 40 years after the United States sent astronauts to the moon to collect samples. In the Soviet unmanned moon sampling mission, the spacecraft took off from the moon and returned directly to Earth.
The Chang’e-5 probe, consisting of an orbiter, lander, ascender, and return, was launched on November 24th, and the lander and ascender combination landed north of Mons Rumker in Oceanus Procellarum. The sea of storms on the near side of the moon on December 1.
In recent years, China has emerged as a major space powerhouse for manned space missions and landing probes on the dark side of the moon. It is currently building its own space station.
The third Chinese spacecraft to land on the moon, the Chang’e-5, is the latest in a series of increasingly ambitious missions for Beijing’s space program.
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