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China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe brought back 1.9kg of rock samples, space agency says
The samples, collected from the unexplored far side of the moon, were handed over to the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Friday.
The lunar rock samples were handed over to the Chinese Academy of Sciences at a ceremony in Beijing on Friday, three days after the Chang’e-6 returned to Earth from its historic mission. “According to preliminary calculations, the Chang’e-6 mission collected 1,935.3 grams [4.26lb] of lunar samples,” the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said in a statement. Li Chunlai, deputy chief designer of the mission, told reporters on Thursday that the samples “may have very different mineral chemical compositions” from those collected from the moon’s near side.
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