China probe lands on moon in bid to return lunar rocks to Earth

Published on December 1, 2020 - Duration: 00:27s

China probe lands on moon in bid to return lunar rocks to Earth

A Chinese robot probe sent to return lunar rocks to Earth for the first timesince the 1970s landed on the moon, the government announced, adding to astring of increasingly bold space missions by Beijing.


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