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Mike Wehner
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- China's ambitious Chang'e 5 mission to the Moon successfully landed at its intended destination.
- The mission will take samples from the surface of the Moon as well as from a couple of meters beneath the surface.
- Those samples will eventually be sent back to Earth for study.
NASA may be in the midst of planning its own triumphant return to the lunar surface, but that's not stopping China from doing what it can to not just catch up to the US space program, but in many ways surpass it. The latest proof comes in the form of the new Chang'e 5 lunar lander, which recently launched from Earth and just performed a soft landing on Earth's pale neighbor.
The lander was just one part of the Chang'e 5 mission, which also includes an orbiter, ascender, and returner, according to CGTN. As with any mission to the Moon, China's space group has a number of things it would like to accomplish, but there's one objective that is clearly the focus: returning samples of the lunar surface to Earth.
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