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World First: China's Chang'e-6 Lunar Probe Returns With Rocks From Moon's Far Side


Three weeks after it lifted off from the far side of the moon, China's Chang'e-6 spacecraft dropped off a capsule containing first-of-its-kind lunar samples for retrieval from the plains of Inner Mongolia.

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