{"id":19450,"date":"2026-01-18T14:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19450"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:59:03","slug":"change-6-mission-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/change-6-mission-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Chang\u2019e 6 Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Chang&#8217;e-6 Mission Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lunar regolith brought from the Moon by China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e 6 mission has revealed that the Moon is formed from the remains of an ancient collision between an object with Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Chang&#8217;e-6 Mission<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the<\/span><b> first human sampling and return mission from the far side of the moon.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is part of the<\/span><b> broader Chang\u2019e lunar exploration program<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, named after a Chinese goddess of the Moon.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>launched <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by a Chinese Long March-5 rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Center on the southern island of Hainan on May 3, <\/span><b>2024<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chang\u2019e-6 consists of an <\/span><b>orbiter, a returner, a lander, and an ascender.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lander was equipped with multiple sensors, including microwave, laser, and optical imaging sensors which can measure distance and speed, and identify obstacles on the lunar surface.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The probe has adopted <\/span><b>two methods of moon sampling<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which include:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Using a drill <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to collect subsurface samples<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Grabbing samples <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the surface <\/span><b>with a robotic arm.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It marks the <\/span><b>second time a mission<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has <\/span><b>successfully reached the far side <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the moon. <\/span><b>China first completed that historic feat in 2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with its <\/span><b>Chang\u2019e-4<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> probe.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though the far side of the Moon holds great scientific promise, it is<\/span><b> harder to explore<\/b> <b>the far side <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the Moon than the near side.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Communication signals <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from Earth<\/span><b> can\u2019t directly reach the far side, so relay satellites have to be launched <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ahead of any mission.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> Chang&#8217;e-6<\/b> <b>landed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the lunar far side on <\/span><b>June 1, 2024, collected rock and regolith samples, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>launched them to eventually return to Earth <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nearly a month later.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chang\u2019e-6 <\/span><b>landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a massive and roughly 4-billion-year-old <\/span><b>crater covering<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a vast portion of the <\/span><b>far side of the Moon.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>samples <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chang\u2019e-6 collected there <\/span><b>could include pieces of the Moon\u2019s interior<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that would have been excavated by the giant impact that formed the basin, which stretches over roughly 2,500 kilometers (1,600 miles).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-in\/news\/techandscience\/our-moon-is-the-debris-from-an-ancient-collision-china-s-chang-e-6-reveals\/ar-AA1CIxwQ?apiversion=v2&amp;domshim=1&amp;noservercache=1&amp;noservertelemetry=1&amp;batchservertelemetry=1&amp;renderwebcomponents=1&amp;wcseo=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MSN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chang\u2019e-6 is the first mission to collect and return samples from the Moon\u2019s far side, launched by China on May 3, 2024. 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