After a 12-day voyage, China's lunar probe Chang'e-3 landed at the Sea of Rains (also known as Mare Imbrium) in the moon's northern hemisphere on 14 December. The event, broadcast live on national television, was the first soft landing on the moon in 37 years. "Everything has gone fantastically well," says Wu Ji, director of the National Space Science Center in Beijing. "The lander kicked up much less dust than expected." The Communist Party hailed the mission as a "new glory" of the Chinese people.
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