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Hello everyone!  With the success of the Chang'e-5 mission, China has become the third country to retrieve sample from the Moon, after the U.S and the Soviet Union. Scientists believe the lunar rocks and soil could give us a glimpse of a much younger moon. Chinese space probe Chang'e-5, carrying rocks and soil from the Moon, returned to Earth safely on December 17. The capsule carrying the samples landed in northern China's inner Mongolia region.   This is the first lunar sample return since 1976, when the former Soviet Union's Luna 24 returned with Lunar material. China's Chang'e-5 probe. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Chang'e-5 is a robotic mission of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, launched on November 23 2020. The Chang'e-5 probe included a lander, an ascender, orbiter and a returner. After it entered the designated circular lunar orbit, the lander-ascender pair separated from the orbiter-returner group and descended and successfully touched down n...