China’s Chang’e-6 moon mission has successfully landed on the other side and is already busy collecting specimens for shipment to Earth. The first set of data was transmitted by the Chang’e 6 lander-ascender combination after arriving on Sunday morning (Beijing time). The landing was aided by China’s newly deployed Queqiao-2 relay satellite to provide a … Read more
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s science newsletter Wonder Theory. To receive it in your inbox, Register for free here. Humans landed on the moon in the late 1960s and 1970s during NASA’s Apollo program using computers that had far less processing power than today’s smartphones. Yet landing on the moon, … Read more
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s science newsletter Wonder Theory. To receive it in your inbox, Register for free here. Humans landed on the moon in the late 1960s and 1970s during NASA’s Apollo program using computers that had far less processing power than today’s smartphones. Yet landing on the moon, … Read more