Chang’e-6 observed by NASA’s LRO

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has imaged CNSA’s Chang’e-6 lunar lander in the Apollo crater, located in the South Pole-Aitkin impact basin on the far side of the Moon, on 7 June 2024. The Chang’e-6 lunar mission (嫦娥六号) collected soil samples and will return them to Earth, as well as conducted scientific measurements of the lunar environment. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University