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Chang'e 6's lunar samples show the age of the South Pole-Aitken basin on the far side of the moon (and presumably its surface, which is rugged and cratered, vastly different from the near side) as 2830 million years, with a lack of radioactive elements that scientific theories thought would have kept the magma molten.

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Anything you can do...: https://spacenews.com/china-quietly-tested-its-first-inflatable-space-module-in-orbit/

An interesting test (even if it does look more like an inflated beachball), but a technical detail is that Shijian-19 had a total mass of 3.5 tons, and the payload of the recoverable section was 5-600kg. An unknown portion of it is still up there, possibly with the test module still attached.

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