China became the latest nation to put a spacecraft on the Moon Sunday, deliberately crashing its Changle 1 probe into the surface after it successfully completed a year long study of the Moon using a suite of sophisticated instruments.
Changle 1 was only the first step in the Chinese lunar program. Over the next few years, China plans to soft land a probe on the Moon, as well as deliver and operate a lunar rover.
Weighing in at over 5,000 pounds, Changle 1 no doubt created yet another lunar crater when it crashed into the surface.
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