Rocks from the far side of the #Moon landed in #Mongolia on Tuesday
The mission has significance for the #MoonRace between #China and the #UnitedStates
This was not China's first robotic mission to return a few pounds of dust and pebbles from the lunar surface—that came with the Chang'e 5 mission in December 2020. However, this was the first time any space program in the world returned material from the Moon's far side, and it looks like #Change6 mission succeeded.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/china-has-completed-another-impressive-robotic-mission-to-the-moon/
@BenjaminHCCarr well, that really happened under the radar.