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Moon rocks reveal hidden lunar history

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The 2020 Chang'e-5 mission and the 2020 Chang’e- 5 mission are the first to return lunar rocks to Earth since the 1970s .

They are building on what scientists learned from Apollo -era missions, helping to unravel mysteries about how the Moon was formed and why it looks the way it does today .

But big puzzles remain, such as why the far side of the Moon faces away from Earth .

Chang’e-6 brought back the first samples from the Moon ’s far side, taken from the South Pole-Aitken Basin .

Scientists are keen to use these samples to start determining why the far side is so dramatically different from the near side.

The Artemis III mission, planned for 2027 , aims to break more new ground by landing astronauts near the Moon 's south pole.

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