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Fig. 1: Distribution of manned and unmanned landings on the Moon to date.
Fig. 2: Landing-site images taken by the Chang’e-4 lander terrain camera and Yutu-2 panoramic camera.

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Wu, W., Li, C., Zuo, W. et al. Lunar farside to be explored by Chang’e-4. Nat. Geosci. 12, 222–223 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0341-7

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