{"id":3844,"date":"2019-01-11T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T11:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/change-4-probe-takes-panoramic-photos-on-moons-far-side\/"},"modified":"2019-01-11T11:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T11:02:52","slug":"change-4-probe-takes-panoramic-photos-on-moons-far-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/change-4-probe-takes-panoramic-photos-on-moons-far-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Chang&#8217;e-4 Probe Takes Panoramic Photos on Moon&#8217;s Far Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, Jan. 11 (<font face=\"Arial\">China Space News) &#8212; China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-4 probe took panoramic photos on the lunar surface after it successfully made the first ever soft-landing on the far side of the moon.<\/p>\n<p >The China National Space Administration (CNSA) Friday released the 360-degree panoramic photos taken by a camera installed on the top of the lander.<\/p>\n<p >The images were sent back via the relay satellite Queqiao, which was operating around the second Lagrangian point of the earth-moon system, about 455,000 km from the earth, where it can see both the earth and the moon&#8217;s far side.<\/p>\n<p >Scientists have made a preliminary analysis on the terrains and landform surrounding the probe according to the panoramic pictures.<\/p>\n<p >Chang&#8217;e-4 probe touched down on the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin in the morning of Jan. 3, and the lunar rover Yutu-2 drove onto the lunar surface late that night.<\/p>\n<p >Then the rover took a &#8220;nap&#8221; as the solar radiation raised the temperature on the lunar surface to over 100 degrees centigrade. It restarted to work on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p >The lander, the rover and the relay satellite are in good condition, said CNSA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Jan. 11 (China Space News) &#8212; China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-4 probe took panoramic photos on the lunar surface after it successfully made the first ever soft-landing on the far side of the moon. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) Friday released the 360-degree panoramic photos taken by a camera installed on the top of the lander. [&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-3844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844"}],"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=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}