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In Global First, China’s Lunar Probe Returns to Earth With Samples From the Far Side of the Moon
China’s Chang’e 6 probe returned on Earth with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first. The probe landed in the Inner Mongolian region in northern China on Tuesday afternoon. “I now declare that the Chang’e 6 …