We Just Landed on the Far Side of the Moon for the First Time! | SciShow News

The new year is off to a great start for space exploration! New Horizons has passed the farthest object ever visited by a spacecraft, and China put a lander on the dark side of the Moon!

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Sources:

https://eos.org/articles/new-horizons-sends-first-looks-of-2014-mu69
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20190103
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20190102

https://eos.org/articles/lander-gives-first-look-at-moons-farside
https://spacenews.com/change-4-relay-satellite-enters-halo-orbit-around-earth-moon-l2-microsatellite-in-lunar-orbit/
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Mechanics/lagpt.html
https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/comm_orbiters.html

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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Press-Conferences/index.php?page=2019-01-03
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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Press-Conferences/index.php?page=2019-01-03
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Pole%E2%80%93Aitken_basin_on_the_Moon%27s_farside.png
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