China Found Something Weird on Dark Side of the Moon! Better than NASA & SpaceX

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China Found Something Weird on Dark Side of the Moon! Better than NASA & SpaceX === #spacezone #space #starship #spacexstarship === China Found Something Weird on Dark Side of the Moon! Better than NASA & SpaceX Most people know about the term “the far side of the Moon,” but as famous as it is, there’s only one country so far that has landed on it and actually brought back samples—China. So, how did they do it, and what kind of technological secrets are they holding? Let’s take a closer look! The Chang’e-6 mission (CE-6) was launched on May 3, 2024, from Wenchang, Hainan, China, and successfully collected samples from the Apollo Basin in the South Pole–Aitken (SPA) Basin on June 4, 2024. This was the first time humanity had ever obtained samples from the far side of the Moon, and these samples may help reveal the origins of the Moon’s front-back dichotomy, the early impact history of the solar system, and the Moon’s geological evolution. China Found Something Weird on Dark Side of the Moon! Better than NASA & SpaceX Most people have heard about the far side of the Moon, but not everyone really knows what it is. Because the Moon’s revolution cycle matches its rotation cycle, the same side always faces Earth. The other side—most of which we can never see from Earth—is called the far side, or sometimes the “dark side.” This name doesn’t refer to darkness in a literal sense, but to the mystery surrounding its largely unexplored terrain. Remote-sensing images show that the Moon’s two sides look very different. The near side is relatively flat, while the far side is covered with impact craters of many different sizes and has far fewer lunar maria. Scientists think that the lunar crust on the far side is much thicker than the crust on the near side, but no one knows exactly why. China Found Something Weird on Dark Side of the Moon! Better than NASA & SpaceX Chang’e-6 was the sixth robotic lunar exploration mission by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the second CNSA lunar sample-return mission. As with its predecessors in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, the spacecraft is named after the Chinese moon goddess Chang’e. The Chang’e-6 probe was originally intended to serve as a backup for Chang’e-5. But after that mission succeeded, it was assigned a far more daunting task: collecting samples from the far side of the Moon. No one had ever attempted such a mission before—and for good reason. The far side of the Moon poses unique challenges due to its rugged terrain and the fact that it has no direct line of sight to Earth. Because the Moon rotates at the same pace that it orbits Earth, the far side always faces away from us, and radio signals can’t pass through the Moon to reach Earth. On top of that, landing on the far side is much harder. As mentioned earlier, its surface—facing outward toward the rest of the solar system—is pockmarked with many more impact craters than the near side. So, how did the Chinese do it?