China has launched a probe with potato on the back of the moon

The BBC evokes Chinese media.

"As part of the mission Chang-e -4) The probe and moonlight should land in the crater on one side of the moon never visible from Earth," reads the message.

The "Changzhen-3B" launcher left the Sichan Cosmodrome in Sichuan Province, in the south-west of the country.

The mission of the mission is to try to send samples of lunar soil to Earth.

The probe will not land on the moon at the earliest. in January.

The Karman crater is interesting for scientists, located in the oldest and largest object of the Moon – the South Pole-Aitken Basin.

The researchers believe that it was formed by the collision of the Moon with a giant asteroid billions of years ago.

The probe should determine the characteristics of the soil geology and soil composition.

The mission will also analyze the radio environment on the back of the moon to determine astronomical radiotelephone installation possibilities in the future.

The probe carries with it a heavy container.

28 Chinese universities were involved in its development

"We want to study the respiration and photosynthesis of plants for months," said the head of the experiment at the agency "Sinhua" . Liu Hanlong earlier this year.

The Moonlight of Utah, which was integrated at the mission Chan & # 39; e-3, explored the moon in 2013

since. the probe on the back of the moon will not have our planet in sight, dan and it will be sent via Queqiao satellite, launched by China in May this year.

Photo: NASA

The probe and moonlight are equipped with several cameras, a radar for scanning the lunar surface, a spectrometer for the determination of minerals and an apparatus to study the interaction of the solar wind with a lunar surface

This mission is part of the vast Chinese program of study of the Moon. The first and second missions were collecting data on the orbit, while the third and fourth targets were intended to carry out actions on the surface of the satellite.

Photo: CNSA