China said Thursday its latest lunar probe has finished taking samples of the moon’s surface and sealed them within the spacecraft for return to Earth, the first time such a mission has been attempted by any country in more than 40 years.
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https://phys.org/news/2020-12-china-moon-probe-samples-earth.html