{"id":31492,"date":"2024-06-25T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=31492"},"modified":"2024-06-25T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T17:00:34","slug":"china-space-probe-returns-with-rare-moon-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=31492","title":{"rendered":"China space probe returns with rare Moon rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sc-43e6b7ba-0 dKljgB\" data-component=\"headline-block\">\n<h1 class=\"sc-518485e5-0 bWszMR\">China space probe returns with rare Moon rocks<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-43e6b7ba-0 bWSguZ\" data-component=\"byline-block\">\n<div class=\"sc-1d2e900b-0 fhxEhT\" data-testid=\"byline\">\n<div class=\"sc-1d2e900b-1 gwgaEc\">\n<div class=\"sc-1d2e900b-9 eMfYfM\"><time class=\"sc-1d2e900b-10 WPunI\">\u00a0<\/time><span class=\"sc-1d2e900b-6 hhBctz\" data-testid=\"byline-name\">By\u00a0Laura Bicker &amp; Kelly Ng,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"sc-1d2e900b-7 jbvpvO\">in Beijing and Singapore<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-1d2e900b-2 bDFePy\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-1d2e900b-11 fPUyIi\">\n<div data-testid=\"popoverTrigger\"><strong>Full story with video:<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-c9e5db86-0 ipxgbO\">\n<div id=\"bbcMediaPlayer0\" class=\"sc-c9e5db86-1 bxZWTr\" data-testid=\"\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c04447venm1o\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c04447venm1o<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-43e6b7ba-0 khQhed\" data-component=\"caption-block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-c361b622-0 fHxdon\" data-component=\"ad-slot\" data-testid=\"ad-unit\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-43e6b7ba-0 bWSguZ\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">China&#8217;s lunar probe has returned to Earth with the first ever samples from the Moon&#8217;s unexplored far side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Chang&#8217;e-6 landed in the Inner Mongolia desert on Tuesday, after a nearly two-month long mission which was fraught with risks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Scientists are eagerly awaiting the Chang\u2019e-6 as the samples could answer key questions about how planets are formed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">China is the only country to have landed on the far side of the Moon, having done so before in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The far side &#8211; which faces away from Earth &#8211; is technically challenging to reach due to its distance, and its difficult terrain of giant craters and few flat surfaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Scientists are interested in this less-explored side as it is hoped it may contain traces of ice, which can be harvested for water, oxygen, and hydrogen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Chang&#8217;e-6 mission is a source of pride for a nation which has stepped up its missions to the Moon &#8211; drawing attention from its rival, the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">State media showed officials planting the Chinese flag with a flourish just after the Chang\u2019e-6 capsule landed in the desert of Inner Mongolia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">China&#8217;s President Xi Jinping has called to congratulate those at the command centre of the Chang\u2019e-6 mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Mr Xi said he hopes they can carry on exploring deep space and &#8220;reaching new heights in unravelling the mysteries of the universe&#8230; to benefit humanity and advance the nation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China space probe returns with rare Moon rocks \u00a0By\u00a0Laura Bicker &amp; Kelly Ng,\u00a0in Beijing and Singapore Full story with video: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c04447venm1o China&#8217;s lunar probe has returned to Earth with the first ever samples from the Moon&#8217;s unexplored far side. The Chang&#8217;e-6 landed in the Inner Mongolia desert on Tuesday, after a nearly two-month long mission &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=31492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China space probe returns with rare Moon rocks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133],"tags":[1759,586,1201],"class_list":["post-31492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-news","tag-change-6","tag-china","tag-moon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31493,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31492\/revisions\/31493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}