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Events on Thursday 3 January 2019 1
2019Chang'e 4 lands on the far side of the MoonChina achieves first-ever landing on the lunar far sideChina's Chang'e 4 spacecraft became the first probe in history to make a soft landing on the far side of the Moon, in the South Pole-Aitken basin. It deployed the Yutu-2 rover to study the previously unexplored terrain. The mission relied on a relay satellite to communicate with Earth.