Japan's first lunar probe has begun to orbit the moon, in what Japanese space officials are calling the largest mission to investigate the moon since the U. S. Apollo program decades ago.

日本发射的第一个月球探测器已开始环绕月球飞行。日本官员称这次飞行是美国几十年前开展“阿波罗”计划之后的最大规模的探月计划。