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...
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! 🔭🧪🛰️
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.