{"id":3020,"date":"2025-11-07T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-mars-orbiter-observes-interstellar-object-3i-atlas\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:23:10","slug":"chinas-mars-orbiter-observes-interstellar-object-3i-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-mars-orbiter-observes-interstellar-object-3i-atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Mars orbiter observes interstellar object 3I\/ATLAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p  >The orbiter of China&#8217;s Mars mission Tianwen-1 has successfully observed an interstellar object, coded 3I\/ATLAS, using its high-resolution camera, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).<\/p>\n<p  >During the observation, the spacecraft was about 30 million kilometers from 3I\/ATLAS, making it one of the closest observations by a probe of this interstellar object.<\/p>\n<p  >Data received and processed by the ground application system showed clear cometary features in the images. Researchers created an animation from a series of images taken over 30 seconds, demonstrating the object&#8217;s movement through space. These observations are now being used for further scientific study of 3I\/ATLAS.<\/p>\n<p  >This successful observation represents an important extended mission for Tianwen-1. The detection of such a faint celestial object serves as a valuable technical test for China&#8217;s Tianwen-2 mission, which was launched in May &#8212; aiming to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and explore a main-belt comet, the CNSA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The orbiter of China&#8217;s Mars mission Tianwen-1 has successfully observed an interstellar object, coded 3I\/ATLAS, using its high-resolution camera, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). During the observation, the spacecraft was about 30 million kilometers from 3I\/ATLAS, making it one of the closest observations by a probe of this interstellar object. Data received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}