China's space probe successfully collects samples from dark side of Moon

China’s Chang’e-6 probe has lifted off from the far side of the Moon, starting its journey back towards Earth, state media Xinhua announced on Tuesday.

The probe departed the Moon at 7.38am local time (12.38am BST) and completed its two-day sample collection on Monday night.

Chang’e-6 displayed China’s national flag for the first time on the far side of the Moon after picking up the samples, Beijing Daily said.

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[wangyanadam]

Far side, pls. Don't be like the old NASA chief.

[directxxxx]

Happy 35th anniversary of crushing an American failed color revolution in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. 🎉🎉🎉🎉
🎉🎉🎉🎉

[sz]

Didn’t show the flag. Some other media shows the still flag. No air on the moon. No wind nor breeze to make a flag flutter. Chinese flag on the moon is for real. Telegraph, have some courage. Show the flag.

[DavidCase-ovuo]

Stop saying dark side !!! It is the far side. It gets 14 days of sunlight and then 14 days of no sunlight

[tomholroyd]

The Telegraph just said "DARK SIDE OF THE MOON" *again*. That's it. We're done.

[shawnliu]

This time the Telegraph is really speechless about China. How to criticize? 😂

[dsdy]

*Far side of the Moon. Both sides of the Moon receive equal amounts of sunlight

[camu]

Here is a hint for Western media headlines: "China has gone over to the dark side"

[jualbelimanaj]

China spends 54 days round trip to the moon while the US spends 8 days round trip to the moon in 196xx lmao

[yzhang]

Congratulations to Change'E 6 Team!

[entropyachieved]

Once again Musk is being showed up. We were meant to be on Mars years ago and he can't even get us to the moon😂😂😂

[RickOShay]

Great achievement - well done! It's a big pity the nations of the world can't put aside their petty political differences and work together. We all face the same existential threat caused by climate change. Sooner or later we're all going to have to help each other - weather (sic joke) we like it or not. And time is rapidly running out.

[yanghu]

I think they're looking for Helium-3.

[andywong]

USA : China must have stole US technology in order to land on the far side of the moon !

[PravdaSeed]

TaikonauT 🌀
💙 thanks 💙
💚🐉🇨🇳🐉💚
🦋☸️☯️🕉️🦋
🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀

[DavidCase-ovuo]

The moon keeps going light, dark, light, dark?
Don’t worry - it’s just a phase it’s going through.

[josebravo]

Ok so how do we know that moon material is not harmful to the earth or its inhabitants as soon as it makes contact?

[lawman]

These guys have a some nerve. Not content to encroach on our oceans, our middle eastern oil, and our Taiwan, they are now muscling in on our moon. This sleeping tiger needs to wake up now.

[PD_]

Obviously staged. Look at the misaligned pixels.

[kevinhuman]

Tech that makes it to the moon, has camera quality of a flip phone