Technicians check the Chang'e 5 reentry capsule after it touched down at its preset landing site in Siziwang Banner of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Thursday. [Photo by Wang Jiangbo/For China Daily]

The lander-ascender combination of Chang'e 5 robotic lunar probe finished gathering lunar samples and packed them in a vacuum container on Dec 3 night. [Photo provided to China Daily]

A ceremony is held at a building of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the birthplace of the Chang'e 5, to celebrate the arrival of the probe's reentry capsule in Beijing on Thursday evening. XU JINGXING/CHINA DAILY

The return capsule of China's Chang'e-5 probe lands in Siziwang Banner, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on Dec 17, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]