The mission hopes to bring rocks back to earth from the far side of the Moon for the first time.
A craft launched from China in May is preparing to land on the far side of the Moon - an unexplored place almost no-one tries to go.
On Sunday, the lander component of the mission will separate from the orbiter and attempt to land on the side of the Moon that faces permanently away from Earth."Everyone is very excited that we might get a look at these rocks no-one has ever seen before," explains John Pernet-Fisher, who specialises in lunar geology at the University of Manchester.
"It would help us answer those really big questions, like how are planets formed, why do crusts form, what is the origin of water in the solar system?" he says. From there, it could gather material that came from deep inside the lunar mantle - the inner core of the Moon - Prof Pernet-Fisher says.
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