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嫦娥五号探测器完成月球轨道交会对接和在轨样品转移 - 2020年12月07日
Highlighting work of Shanghai scientists in Chang'e-5 mission
The world is now awaiting the return of the first lunar samples in 44 years. In China’s first sample-return attempt, local researchers are putting their shoulders to the wheel.
Traveling 380,000 kilometers in seven days, China’s sixth lunar mission Chang'e-5 landed on the Oceanus Procellarum, or “Ocean of Storms,” a previously unvisited area in a massive lava plain on the near side of the moon, on December 1.
After a 19-hour operation, it finished collecting, packaging and sealing samples of lunar soil and rock. A spacecraft carrying the samples lifted off from the lunar surface on December 3, and is scheduled to return home in mid-late December.