China’s Chang’e-6 mission successfully lands on the floor (about 5,000 meters below mean lunar level) of the large Aitken crater, on the far side of the Moon, near the South Pole. It releases a small rover, which then retrieves the mother probe. It samples the lunar soil at several locations and then, on June 4, sends the samples back on the reentry probe, toward lunar orbit, to bring them back to Earth.
