A chinese space probe Thursday the country on the lunar dark side. It reports China’s state media, according to news agency Associated Press.

The chinese probe Chang’e-4, was launched 7. december, made a soft landing on the moon at 03.26 night Danish time.

With the moon landing, writes the China story.

The dark side of the moon is a completely unexplored area. Here reached the americans never to countries with their cutting-edge Apollo program in the 1960s and 1970s.

It is a side of the moon, we can never see from earth. For the moon is caught in a so-called bottom of the rotation. It will say that, in its travel about the earth always turns the same side away.

The historic landing, according to the Associated Press in a sign of China’s growing ambition to establish itself as rummagt.

In 2013, landed China vessel Chang’e-3 on the moon. Previously had the craft flown over the ’dark’ side of the moon not seen from earth.

But no vessel has ever landed on the away part of the moon, which is very mountainous.