Chinese state media that lunar probe has returned to Earth


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TOPICS: China World Chinese state media say a lunar probe containing the first samples of lunar rocks and soil since lunar missions has returned to Earth. Citing the Chinese agency, Xinhua news agency said Thursday that the capsule containing samples collected through the Chang’e-5 probe had landed in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China. With this mission, China has become the third country to sample the moon, after the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s. Two of the 4 modules that made up the Chang’e-5 probe, named after a mythical Chinese moon goddess, landed...