The images were captured by a camera on the Change’e-5 that left the moon on Thursday with samples from the bottom.
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Flags
The US planted the first flag on the moon during the manned Apollo 11 mission in 1969, followed by five other US flags. In 2012, satellite images showed that five of the flags were still standing.
The first flag, astronaut Buzz Aldrin said, was placed too close to the Apollo lunar module and was likely blown away when the module took off.
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