Chang'e 4 mission 'a complete success

China announced on Friday that the Chang'e 4 mission, which conducted mankind's first surface observation of the moon's far side, "a complete success".

The China National Space Administration said in a statement that the two components of the Chang'e 4 robotic probe - the lander and the Yutu 2, or Jade Rabbit 2, rover - took pictures of each other that were transmitted to ground control via the Queqiao relay satellite.

All scientific equipment mounted on the lander and rover has functioned well and their data have been received by ground control. Scientific experiments are underway without any problem, the administration said, explaining that all were successful.