On this day, 24.11.2020, Chinese Long March V Rocket Launched Chang’e 5 Lunar Mission From Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan, China. It was the First mission to bring lunar samples back to Earth in 44 years since the Soviet Luna 24 mission in 1976.
It was landed in moon’s Oceanus Procellarum — the Ocean of Storms — a dark-grey region in the Moon’s northwest corner on 01 December 2020. This landing site was believed to have young rocks and soil roughly around 2 billion years old formed by a volcanic activity that covered up the underlying surface — far younger than the samples NASA’s Apollo astronauts collected and returned which was about 3.1 to 4.4 billion years old.
It Collected 1.73 kg of lunar samples, including soil and rocks, and returned back to earth on 17 December 2020, marking a major milestone on China’s Lunar Exploration Program.
