China's Chang'e-6 Moon Mission: Returning Samples from Far Side South Pole

China's Chang'e-6 Moon Mission: Returning Samples from Far Side South Pole

China's Chang'e-6 science mission is conducting the first-ever human sample return from the far side of the moon with scientific payloads from countries that include France, Italy, Sweden, and Pakistan. The mission will last about 53 days. Here is an animated video of the process. 

Chang'e-6's pre-selected landing area is located in the southern part of the Apollo basin in the SPA basin (43°±2° south latitude, 154°±4° west longitude). The international scientific payloads carried by the Chang'e-6 mission include the French radon gas detector (CNES), the European Space Agency/Swedish ion analyzer, and the Italian laser corner reflector (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), as well as the Pakistani ICUBE-Q cube satellite.

In 2020, Chang'e 5 was the first lunar sample-return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976. The mission made China the third country to return samples from the Moon after the United States and the Soviet Union.

Video Credit: CNSA Watcher

Duration: 6 minutes, 31 seconds

Release Date: May 2, 2024

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