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WorldPosted at: Jun 16 2018 1:43PM


China plans historic mission to moon's 'dark' side

Beijing, June 16 (UNI) After decades of playing catch-up with the US and Russian space programmes, China is poised to do something neither nation nor any other has ever done: land a spacecraft on the dark side of the moon, according to the Xinhua report.
Strictly speaking, of course, the moon has no dark side. But because of the way it orbits Earth, our natural satellite shows us only one side — the other is perpetually hidden from our view.
No one even saw the far side until 1959, when the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft flew around for a look and sent back photos. Even now, the logistics of reaching the far side are so daunting that no astronaut or probe has ever gone there.
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