{"id":3034,"date":"2025-10-10T11:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-tianwen-2-probe-captures-selfie-with-earth\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:01:04","slug":"chinas-tianwen-2-probe-captures-selfie-with-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-tianwen-2-probe-captures-selfie-with-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Tianwen-2 probe captures selfie with Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p  >The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Wednesday unveiled a remarkable image of the Tianwen-2 probe alongside Earth, captured during its deep-space journey.<\/p>\n<p  >The newly released image, acquired by a monitoring camera mounted on the probe&#8217;s robotic arm, showcases China&#8217;s five-starred red flag and the white return capsule against the backdrop of a distant, blue Earth.<\/p>\n<p ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.spacechina.com\/n17212\/c4451941\/part\/4451951.jpg\"  border=\"0\" align=\"center\"> <\/p>\n<p  >According to CNSA, the Tianwen-2 probe is currently approximately 43 million kilometers from Earth and 45 million kilometers from the asteroid 2016HO3.<\/p>\n<p  >The probe has successfully completed a series of in-orbit tests, including the deployment of sampling devices and self-checks of electronic devices. All systems are reported to be functioning normally, while onboard instruments have begun collecting valuable scientific data on the space environment, according to the CNSA.<\/p>\n<p  >China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, on May 29 &#8212; an endeavour to shed light on the formation and evolution of asteroids and the early solar system.<\/p>\n<p  >The mission aims to achieve multiple goals over a decade-long expedition: collecting samples from near-Earth asteroid 2016HO3 and exploring the main-belt comet 311P, which is farther from Earth than Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Wednesday unveiled a remarkable image of the Tianwen-2 probe alongside Earth, captured during its deep-space journey. The newly released image, acquired by a monitoring camera mounted on the probe&#8217;s robotic arm, showcases China&#8217;s five-starred red flag and the white return capsule against the backdrop of a distant, blue [&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-3034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034"}],"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=3034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}