{"id":31494,"date":"2024-06-25T13:16:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T13:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/change-6-chinas-lunar-probe-returns-to-earth-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T13:16:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T13:16:40","slug":"change-6-chinas-lunar-probe-returns-to-earth-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/change-6-chinas-lunar-probe-returns-to-earth-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Chang&#039;e-6 China&#039;s Lunar Probe Returns to Earth &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"finalstyle\">Chang\u2019e-6 China\u2019s lunar probe achieved a historic landing in Inner Mongolia on Tuesday, marking the first time a country has collected samples from the far side of the moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"finalstyle\">The reentry capsule landed in Beijing, filled with lunar soil gathered earlier in the month by the probe following its successful touchdown in the moon\u2019s South Pole-Aitken Basin, an impact crater on the lunar far side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"finalstyle\">Following the landing, Zhang Kejian, the head of the China National Space Administration, declared the Chang\u2019e-6 mission a success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"finalstyle\">President Xi Jinping of China hailed the mission\u2019s completion as a \u201clandmark achievement\u201d in China\u2019s journey to become a leading space and scientific nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"finalstyle\">Launched on May 3 on a Long March 5 rocket from Hainan\u2019s Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, the Chang\u2019e-6 probe\u2019s samples are set to be flown to Beijing for analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"finalstyle\">The Chang\u2019e-5 mission\u2019s samples, which were collected from the moon\u2019s near side, led to the discovery of new minerals and provided a more precise estimate of the moon\u2019s geological age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"finalstyle\">\u201cThe far side of the moon is quite literally a different place, composed of different materials than the near side, with a distinct history\u2026 retrieving these samples is of fundamental scientific importance,\u201d stated Melville-Kenney, a technical officer from the European Space Agency (ESA) collaborating with Chinese researchers on the Chang\u2019e-6 payloads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Chang\u2019e-6 China\u2019s lunar probe achieved a historic landing in Inner Mongolia on Tuesday, marking the first time a country has collected samples from the far side of the moon. The reentry capsule landed in Beijing, filled with lunar soil gathered earlier in the month by the probe following its successful touchdown in the moon\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Change-6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31496,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31494\/revisions\/31496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}