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Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar. [1]
The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program ( CLEP; Chinese: 中国探月工程; pinyin: Zhōngguó Tànyuè Gōngchéng ), also known as the Chang'e Project (Chinese: 嫦娥工程; pinyin: Cháng'é Gōngchéng) after the Chinese Moon goddess Chang'e, is an ongoing series of robotic Moon missions by the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Chang'e 5 →. Chang'e 4 ( / tʃɑːŋˈə /; Chinese: 嫦娥四号; pinyin: Cháng'é Sìhào; lit. ' Chang'e No. 4') is a robotic spacecraft mission in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program of the CNSA. China achieved humanity's first soft landing on the far side of the Moon with its touchdown on 3 January 2019.
The Chang’e 6 lifted off on time at 5:27 p.m. local time (5:27 a.m. ET) from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in China’s southern island province of Hainan. The launch of the lunar probe, which ...
Budget. $15 million. Box office. $3,038,499 (USA, sub-total) [1] China Moon is a 1994 American neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by John Bailey and starring Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe and Benicio del Toro. It was written by Roy Carlson. It was filmed in 1991 but "shelved" for three years before its release. [2]
The new year is on the new moon closest to Lichun (typically 4 February). The new year is on the first new moon after Dahan (typically 20 January) It has been found that Chinese New Year moves back by either 10, 11, or 12 days in most years. If it falls on or before 31 January, then it moves forward in the next year by either 18, 19, or 20 days.
In 2018, Chang'e-4 gave China its first unmanned moon landing, also on the far side. ... The window for the probe to collect samples on the far side is 14 hours, compared to 21 hours for the near ...
Chang'e 7 →. Chang'e 6 ( Chinese: 嫦娥六号; pinyin: Cháng'é liùhào) is a robotic lunar exploration mission by the China National Space Administration. As China's second sample return mission, [2] it will attempt to obtain a sample of soil and rock from the far side of the Moon, while it conducts scientific experiments on the lunar ...