China’s Chang’e spacecraft is first-ever to land on Moon’s dark side: Everything to know

China’s Chang’e spacecraft is first-ever to land on Moon’s dark side: Everything to know

In this photo provided January 3, 2019, by China National Space Administration, the first image of the 

moon’s far side taken by China’s Chang’e-4 probe. (China National Space

 Administration/Xinhua News Agency via AP)

With its Chang '4 mission, China has probably become the first country to have a soft landing, which is a space shuttle landing, during which there has been no serious damage.

State media said that a Chinese lunar probe named Chang'te-4 made the first landing of the moon. China's moon landing on the dark side is seen as a historical mission, which is being seen as an important step for China's space program. This is the first spacecraft to land on this side of the Moon.

The state's broadcaster CCTV told Reuters that the landing took away the "mysterious veil" from the moon, and "opened a new chapter in the investigation of the human moon". The last spacecraft has seen far from the moon, but no one has landed on it. The farthest part of the Moon is far from the Earth and is relatively unexplored. It is also known as the dark side of the Moon.

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Earlier, successful landing had created confusion when the state-run media China China and CGTN removed their tweets while confirming the success of the mission, The Guardian said. Two hours later, State Broadcaster CCTV confirmed the news that Lunar explorer Chang touched at 10:26 a.m. at the top of his afternoon news broadcast.

The name of the mission is named after the goddess of moon in Chinese mythology. Chang 4 has borne a rover, which includes low-frequency radio astronomical observation and investigation of the structure and mineral structure of the terrain, the AP said.

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The Long March 3B rocket carrying the Chang-4 from Zhichang Satellite Launch Center, South China, was destroyed on March 8. It landed on the Von Karman Crater in the Southern Pole-Hetan Basin and then sent back the picture of the landing site shot by one of the surveillance cameras on the investigator's lander, which marked the world's first image taken on the moon's distance. .