China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe lands back on Earth

China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe has landed in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, making the country the first to bring back samples from the moon’s far side. The reentry capsule touched down at 2.07pm Beijing time (7.07am Irish time), according to state broadcaster CCTV, carrying lunar soil collected earlier in the month by the probe after a successful landing on the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin, an impact crater on the side of the Moon that always faces away from Earth. Soon after the capsule landed, Zhang Kejian, head of the China National Space Administration, announced the successful completion of…