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QUESTION China recently made history in moon exploration by successfully landing a spacecraft on the far and unexplored side of the celestial body in January 2019, a feat that no other space power has ever attempted. Landing on the far side poses communication challenges as there is no direct line of sight to Earth. The far side is also more rugged which made the landing of the spacecraft more risky and complex, even though scientists targeted a flat area for the landing. That region of the moon purportedly has characteristics that are distinct from the near side, which we can see from Earth. The Chinese expedition also included an exploration of the Von Kármán crater, one of the largest impact craters in the Solar System and the largest, deepest and oldest basin on the Moon, as well as an attempt to form a mini biosphere with six live species brought from Earth-cotton, fruit fly, potato, rapeseed, yeast and arabidopsis (a flowering plat) There were no foreign objects that have touched down on the far side of the moon before this Chinese expedition True False Cannot say The challenges of a space expedition to the far side of the moon is partially due to the inability of the spacecraft to see Earth visually. False Cannot say True The Chinese made use of this space expedition to examine whether they could sustain life on the moon. True Cannot say False

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There were no foreign objects that have touched down on the far side of the moon before this Chinese expedition. TRUE

The challenges of a space expedition to the far side of the moon is partially due to the inability of the spacecraft to see Earth visually. TRUE, no direct line of sight

The Chinese made use of this space expedition to examine whether they could sustain life on the moon TRUE as evident from the last line of the paragraph