the Chang’e-4 was shot up in the beginning of december. On the Sunday the probe into a planned orbit where it is closest to is 15 kilometres from the moon’s surface, according to the chinese rymdmyndigheten.

the Probe is the first landing on the moon’s back side. The moon turns always the same face towards the earth. Already in 1959 took a soviet probe pictures of the back, writes Reuters.

the Probe will, among other things, examine the terrain on the moon’s backside, which is oländigare than the front with more craters after rymdstenar struck down.

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