04 September 2019
In the fifth and latest Physics World special report on China - following previous reports in 2011, 2016, 2017 and 2018 - the magazine takes an in-depth look at China’s Chang’e-4 mission to the far side, which landed in the Von Kármán creator in the South Pole Aitken Basin on 3 January. A new facility in central China is designed to study gravitational waves as well as test Einstein’s theory of general relativity to unprecedented precision, as Ling Xin reports.
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