Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans: The re-entry capsule carrying the lunar sample has successfully separated from the Chang'e-6 orbiter and is falling down to Earth! 🧪🔭🛰️ 🍿: English language live feed from the China Global Television Network: www.youtube.com/live/WLmKmo5...

The re-entry capsule carrying the lunar sample has successfully separated from the Chang'e-6 orbiter and is falling down to Earth! 🧪🔭🛰️ 🍿: English language live feed from the China Global Television Network: www.youtube.com/live/WLmKmo5...

Excited about the Chang'e-6 lunar probe landing in Inner Mongolia in the coming hours? 🔭🧪🛰️ 👇fab paper on what they hope to learn: age of the largest impact crater on the moon, composition of the lunar mantle (does it match Earth?), evidence of volcanic activity....🤓 www.cell.com/the-innovati...

Geological context of Chang’e-6 landing area and implications for sample analysiswww.cell.com The research on the returned samples can provide ground truth for the study of the geological evolution history of the Moon. However, previous missions all collected samples from the nearside of the M...

Live: Special coverage of Chang'e-6 lunar probe’s returnwww.youtube.com The Chang’e-6 mission has entered the final stretch of its 53-day quest to collect samples from the far side of the moon. Join CGTN’s special live coverage o...

Skip re-entry phase: the first far-side lunar samples incoming

Parachutes!!! 🧪🔭🛰️ Chang'e lunar probe 🥳

Touchdown! Huge huge congratulations to the Chinese Space Agency. The successful end of a 53-day mission to the moon and back, returning the first ever samples from the far side of the moon! 🔭🧪🛰️

Congrats ! I so expect them to have a crewed mission before the US

Parchute's open.

Return capsule has landed!

Helicopters have landed. Workers have approached the capsule.

Someone in white is using an instrument to test the returner. I would guess it is a gas sampler, testing for hazardous vapors. Someone in red drove a stake or pipe into the ground.

I see. The red worker has returned with the flag of China. The implanted object must have been a pipe or socket; the flagpole was easily inserted. Then, with a flourish, red worker flung the red and yellow flag into the wind.

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