The Chinese craft is now in the South Pole-Aitken Basin and will try to collect two kilos of Moon rock and debris to bring back to Earth.
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00:00 A Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side of the moon to collect rocks in a growing
00:07 space rivalry with the United States.
00:13 The mission set out to collect soil and rock samples and is part of a growing extraterrestrial
00:19 rivalry with the US, Japan, India and other nations.
00:26 China is aiming to put a person on the moon before 2030, which would make it the second
00:31 country after the US to do so.
00:33 [Whoosh]