The Chang'e-5 device sent the first image of the Chinese flag against the background of the lunar landscape
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Chinese automatic lunar station "Chang'e-5" for the first time in stories transmitted to Earth a dynamic snapshot of the national flag of the People's Republic of China against the background of the lunar landscape. The Center for Moon Exploration and Space Programs of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced this.
The photo shows a flag clamped in an automated tentacle. The flagpole is reportedly made from a special material and weighs only 12 grams.
The day before, the Chinese National Space Administration reported that the Chang'e-5 spacecraft had finished collecting lunar soil and packed it, after which the return module with samples successfully launched from the surface of a natural satellite, entered a circumlunar orbit, where it would soon dock with the orbital module to be sent to Earth.
The device with 2 kilograms of lunar soil should arrive on Earth on December 15-16 and land in the north of China in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The delivered soil is very much awaited by Chinese specialists, including the developers of the project for the construction of a Chinese research lunar base.
China may become the third state after the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) to deliver lunar soil samples to Earth.
China National Space Agency
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