The mission by the three-tonne orbiter, also known as the Selenological and Engineering Explorer, or SELENE, was the most extensive mission there since the US Apollo programme, JAXA said.

日本宇航探测总署称，由重三吨的轨道器进行的探测任务，又叫作月球学及工程探测器或SELENE是自美国阿波罗项目以来最为广泛的月球探测任务。

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In their quest for water on our planet's satellite, researchers have had to rely on the analysis of lunar rocks that US Apollo space missions brought to Earth in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

在他们对于在我们这颗行星的卫星上是否有水的追求下，研究者们不得不依靠美国阿波罗太空任务带来将20世纪60年代末和70年代早期地球月球岩石带回地球进行分析。

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Many of us have watched the lunar voyage of Apollo.

我们许多人观看了阿波罗号登月。

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Join us again next week as we continue the story of the Apollo space flights on EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English.

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