{"id":3731,"date":"2020-07-29T16:25:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T16:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-mars-probe-photographs-earth-and-moon\/"},"modified":"2020-07-29T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T16:25:49","slug":"chinas-mars-probe-photographs-earth-and-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-mars-probe-photographs-earth-and-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Mars probe photographs Earth and Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >China&#8217;s Mars probe, Tianwen-1, captured an image of the Earth and Moon, about 1.2 million km from Earth, the China National Space Administration said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p >China launched its first Mars mission Tianwen-1, which means Questions to Heaven, on July 23, marking the country&#8217;s first step in planetary exploration of the solar system.<\/p>\n<p >Tianwen-1 took a photo of the Earth and Moon with an optical navigation sensor on Monday. In the black-and-white picture, the Earth and the Moon, one large and one small, were both crescent-shaped, watching each other in the vast universe.<\/p>\n<p >According to the CNSA, the probe has escaped the earth&#8217;s gravity and entered the Earth-Mars transfer orbit, travelling more than 1.5 million km away from the Earth.<\/p>\n<p >The probe was in good condition, said the CNSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Mars probe, Tianwen-1, captured an image of the Earth and Moon, about 1.2 million km from Earth, the China National Space Administration said on Tuesday. China launched its first Mars mission Tianwen-1, which means Questions to Heaven, on July 23, marking the country&#8217;s first step in planetary exploration of the solar system. Tianwen-1 took [&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-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731"}],"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=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}