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Harry Baker

First-ever image of China's mysterious 'quasi moon' probe revealed weeks after it secretly launched into space

A photo of a circular solar panel in space. This is the first photo of the Tianwen2 spacecraft.

Chinese officials have revealed the first-ever photo of the country's highly secretive Tianwen 2 spacecraft, two weeks after it was launched into space. The elusive probe, which bears a striking resemblance to a current NASA spacecraft, will attempt to collect samples from one of Earth's mysterious "quasi-moons" next year.

On May 29, the Tianwen 2 probe was successfully launched into space onboard a Long March 3B rocket, which took off from the Xichang spaceport in southwestern China at around 1:31 a.m. local time, Live Science's sister site Space.com previously reported.

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