China Moon Mission: After India, now China has landed its lander on the 'dark world' of the moon

After India's Chandrayaan-3, now China has also landed its lander on the South Pole of the Moon. Its 'Chang'e-6' lunar lander successfully landed on Sunday in that remote area of ​​the moon (South Pole of Lunar) which never comes in front of the Earth. China's National Space Administration announced that the Chang'e-6 lander landed in the Aitken Basin of the South Pole of the Moon. There it will collect samples of the lunar surface. The purpose of this mission is to bring samples from the far part of the moon to Earth for the first time.

This is the second time a lander has landed on the far side of the moon. China accomplished this historic feat for the first time in 2019, with the Chang'e-4 mission. If everything goes according to plan, China will achieve another milestone with the Chang'e-6 mission. The mission began on May 3 and will continue until June 25. On the moon's south pole, water has frozen into ice. Chinese scientists believe that the samples collected by the Chang'e-6 lander will reveal important information about the origin and development of the moon, Earth, and the solar system. This data will also be useful for China, which intends to land astronauts on the moon by 2030. China also wants to build a research base on the South Pole.

China will bring two kilograms of moon dust and rock to Earth through this mission. The lander will use a drill and mechanical arm to extract the rock. It will spend two days on the far side of the moon. The collected sample will be sent to a vacuum container, which is orbiting the moon. The container will be transferred to the re-entry capsule, which will land in the desert of China's Inner Mongolia region around June 25.

The mission is named after the Chinese moon goddess Chang'e. According to China's state media Xinhua, Chang'e-6 landed on an impact crater called Apollo Basin. It is in the Aitken Basin of the South Pole, which is about 2,500 kilometers in diameter. Before landing, the mission's orbiter, lander, ascender, and reentry module orbited the moon for 20 days.