BEIJING — A Chinese space capsule bringing back the principal moon rocks in over forty years began its three-day profit to Earth for Sunday.

The Chang’e 5 lunar test, which had been circling the moon for about seven days, started up four motors for around 22 minutes to move out of the moon’s circle, the China National Space Administration said in a social news organization.

The specialty’s lander landed on the moon recently near a development called the Mons Rumker, a territory accepted to have been the site of antiquated volcanic movement. It gathered around 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of tests.

The return capsule is required to land in northern China in the Inner Mongolia locale in the wake of isolating from the remainder of the rocket and coasting down on parachutes. The material would be the first brought back since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 test in 1976.

The stones and other flotsam and jetsam were gotten both by penetrating into the moon’s outside layer and scooping straightforwardly off the surface. They might be billions of years more youthful than those brought back by before U.S. furthermore, Soviet missions, potentially offering experiences into the moon’s set of experiences and that of different bodies in the nearby planetary group.

China has set up labs to investigate the examples for age and piece and is additionally expected to impart some of them to different nations, as was finished with the many kilograms (pounds) brought back by the U.S. furthermore, previous Soviet Union.

China’s space program has a progression of aspiring missions in progress, including a test on the way to Mars. The Chang’e lunar program, named after the antiquated Chinese moon goddess, has been working the Chang’e 4 test on the moon’s less investigated far side for as far back as two years.

Tentative arrangements call for restoring a human to the moon and maybe a lasting moon base. China is likewise constructing a space station to start working as ahead of schedule as 2022.