China lunar probe returns from moon carrying first ever soil samples from its far side – video

On Tuesday, China's Chang'e-6 lunar mission achieved a milestone as its re-entry capsule successfully landed in Inner Mongolia, retrieving the first samples from the moon's far side. The capsule made its touchdown at 2.06 pm Beijing time, bringing back lunar soil that the probe had gathered earlier this month. The soil was collected from the South Pole-Aitken Basin, an impact crater that is 8 miles deep

• China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe returns world's first samples from far side of the moon