China is wanting to launch an uncrewed spacecraft to the moon on Tuesday, which will scoop up lunar rocks soil and take them back to Earth. In the event that effective, it would be the first time any nation has recovered samples from the moon in over 40 years.

The mission, called Chang’e-5, is part of a series of complex outings to the moon by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). In January 2019, China handled a rocket on the furthest side of the moon — something that had never been finished. On the off chance that successful, China will be just the third nation actually to have recovered samples from the moon, following the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1960s and 1970s.

The spacecraft is relied upon to launch from Wenchang Space Launch Center on Hainan Island, China, early Tuesday local time, which will be about 3:25 p.m. ET on Monday, as indicated by Space Launch Now, a site that tracks rocket launches the world over.

It will gather around 4 pounds of surface material from a formerly unexplored district, throughout the span of one lunar day — equal to around 14 Earth days — which will keep the electronics from conceivably harming in the extraordinary overnight chilly temperatures, as indicated by the science journal Nature. The samples will generally be put away at the Chinese Academy of Sciences National Astronomical Observatory of China in Beijing. It’s not satisfactory whether the samples will leave the nation for outside research.

The samples are significant in light of the fact that they could assist researchers with understanding volcanic action on the moon, and when volcanoes were last active. The lunar shakes and soil could affirm that volcanoes were active billions of years more recently than recently suspected. On the off chance that that is valid, “we will rewrite the history of the moon,” Xiao Long, a planetary geologist at the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, told Nature.

The sample will be gotten back to Earth, dropping into the Siziwang Banner grassland of the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in China presumably at some point toward the beginning of December, says NASA.