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Your Guide to China's Chang'e-5 Moon Mission
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Your Guide to China’s Chang'e-5 Moon Mission - https://planetary.org/space-missions/change
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Facts Worth Sharing
China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft will return the first Moon samples to Earth since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 mission in 1976.
The samples should be the youngest ever returned to Earth: just 1.2 billion years old, when multicellular life may have already evolved on our planet.
Chang’e-5 will help scientists understand what was happening late in the Moon’s history, as well as how Earth and the solar system evolved.
