This map shows exactly where China landed its Chang'e-4 spacecraft on the far side of the moon

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• For the first time in history, China landed a spacecraft on the moon's far side.
• The Chang'e-4 mission safely placed a rover and lander on the lunar surface Wednesday night (early Thursday morning in China).
• Specifically, the moon mission landed inside a crater that's located within a large, ancient collision site called the South Pole-Aitken Basin.
• A graphical map shows the exact spot where China landed its unprecedented mission.

For the first time in history, China landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon — the part we never see from Earth.

The Chinese moon mission is called Chang'e-4, and it set down a robotic lander and rover at 2:26 a.m. UTC on Thursday (Wednesday night in the US), according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).

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