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Excited about the Chang'e-6 lunar probe landing in Inner Mongolia in the coming hours? ๐Ÿ”ญ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ
๐Ÿ‘‡fab paper on what they hope to learn: age of the largest impact crater on the moon, composition of the lunar mantle (does it match Earth?), evidence of volcanic activity....๐Ÿค“ www.cell.com/the-innovati...

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Note the Chinese Space Agency don't publish timings of mission events in advance, so we only know Chang'e-6 will return on the 25th June. Space News thinks it will be around 0600 UTC though, based on airspace closures! ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿ”ญ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ

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