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Watch: China releases video showing probe landing on far side of the moon KNOWLEDGE SIR    China hailed its mission to explore the dark side of the moon as a "complete success" so far on Friday, as it released video of its Chang'e-4 probe making landfall. Transmitted from a relay satellite to a control centre in Beijing, the pictures were first aired by state broadcaster CCTV. They show the Chang'e-4 probe and its cargo — a Jade Rabbit 2 rover — approaching, adjusting its trajectory and speed before finally landing on the moon on January 3. In a statement , China's lunar exploration programme (CLEP), explained that the probe landed in the Von Karman crater in the Aitken Basin in the South Pole of the moon. Because the area is surrounded by tall mountains, the probe made a vertical landing. We chose a vertical descent strategy to avoid the influence of the mountains on the flight track," Zhan...