China's Chang'e-5 successfully landed at its designated landing area in Siwangzi Banner, N China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region around 2 am Thursday, carrying around 2 kgs of lunar samples. Photos show workers checking craft's status. Photo: Our Space/ Wang Jiangbo

China's Chang'e-5 probe retrieved about 1,731 grams of samples from the moon, according to the China National Space Administration.

The samples were transferred to the Chinese research teams Saturday morning.

Photos: China Space News

Scientists will carry out the storage, analysis and research of the country's first samples collected from the extraterrestrial object.

The return capsule of Chang'e-5 probe landed in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the early hours of Thursday, bringing back the samples collected from the moon.