SCIENTISTS and engineers are considering sending a robotic probe to collect dust and rocks from the far side of the moon, an ambitious endeavour that will likely make it a world’s first, says a senior space agency official.
Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the China National Space Administration, said the United States, Russia and China had brought lunar substances back to Earth, but none of them has ever obtained samples from the silver sphere’s far side, which never faces Earth.
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