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China has become the first country to land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon. The unmanned Chang'e-4 probe (探测器) - the name was inspired by an ancient Chinese moon goddess-. 1 (touch) down last week in the South Pole-Aitken basin. Landing on the moon's far side is 2 (extreme) challenging. Because the moon's body blocks direct radio communication with a probe, China first had to put a satellite in orbit above the moon in aspot 3 it could send signals to the spacecraft and to Earth. The far side of the moon is
of particular 4 (interesting) to scientists because it has a lot of deep craters (环形山) more so 5 the familiar near side. Chinese researchers hope to use the instruments onboard Chang'e-4 6 (find) and study areas of the South Pole-Aitken basin. “This really excites scientists," Carle Pieters, a scientist at Brown University, says,“because it 7.. (mean) we have the chance to obtain information about how the moon .8 (construct)." Data about the moon's composition, such as how. 9 ice and other treasures it contains, could help China decide whether 10. (it) plans for a future lunar (月球的) base are practical.
