HONG KONG: According to reports, China could soon explore dark side of the moon. The communist nation in East Asia has been thinking to land a spacecraft on the dark side of the earth’s only natural satellite in 2020. If China succeeds in the mission, it will be the first country on the earth to do so.
While providing information about the country’s future mission, Wu Weiren, the chief engineer for China’s Lunar Exploration Program, said that the lunar mission of the country will see the Chang’e 4 spacecraft orbiting the moon about 384,400 kilometers from earth before launching a rover to the moon’s surface.
Wu said, “We probably will choose a site on which it is more difficult to land and more technically challenging. Our next move will probably see some spacecraft land on the far side of the moon”.
In December 2013, China had successfully landed a spacecraft, Chang’e 3, on the natural satellite. After that mission, China became the third country after Russia and the United States to land a spacecraft on the surface of the moon. According to reports, the side of the moon, which is not visible from the earth, has been observed by a number of probes, but no nation has every tried to land a probe on that area.
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