China's Chang'e-6 didn't just bring home the first rocks from the Moon's far side. It brought back the only physical proof that the far side is a different world inside: a mantle roughly a hundred times drier than the near side, volcanism that ran a billion years too long, and a magnetic field that came back from the dead. Here's what eighteen months of lab results actually revealed, and why China alone now holds the ground truth of what the Moon is made of.

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