A Chinese lunar capsule returned to Earth on Thursday with the first fresh rock samples from the moon in more than 40 years, offering the possibility of new insights into the history of the solar system and marking a new ...
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Chinese ground crews are standing by for the landing of the first new samples of rocks and soil from the moon in more than 40 years.
Space Exploration
Dec 16, 2020
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A Chinese space capsule bringing back the first moon rocks in more than four decades started its three-day return to Earth on Sunday.
Space Exploration
Dec 13, 2020
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A Chinese probe was orbiting the moon on Monday in preparation for the returning of samples of the lunar surface to Earth for the first time in almost 45 years.
Space Exploration
Dec 7, 2020
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A Chinese spacecraft lifted off from the moon Thursday night with a load of lunar rocks, the first stage of its return to Earth, the government space agency reported.
Space Exploration
Dec 3, 2020
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A Chinese spacecraft took samples of the moon's surface Wednesday as part of a mission to bring lunar rocks back to Earth for the first time since the 1970s, the government said, adding to a string of successes for Beijing's ...
Space Exploration
Dec 2, 2020
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A Chinese space probe on Wednesday began drilling on the surface of the Moon hours after landing, in an ambitious attempt to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades.
Space Exploration
Dec 1, 2020
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China launched an ambitious mission on Tuesday to bring back rocks and debris from the moon's surface for the first time in more than 40 years—an undertaking that could boost human understanding of the moon and of the solar ...
Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2020
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The food preparation preferences of Chinese cooks—such as the technological choice to boil or steam grains, instead of grinding or processing them into flour—had continental-scale consequences for the adoption of new ...
Archaeology
Nov 4, 2020
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An international team of researchers has compiled and verified newly available data on the country's CO2 sink, and, for the first time, they have quantitatively estimated the effect of China's carbon mitigation efforts.
Environment
Oct 28, 2020
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