China’s Chang’e-6 moon mission was launched on 3 May. It reached lunar orbit a few days later and began waiting for sunrise over its landing site on the moon’s far side. Chang’e-6 is named after the Chinese goddess of the moon and it will land in just a few days’ time in a crater called Apollo – an ancient double-ringed walled plain caused by an asteroid smashing into the young moon.
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