{"id":4438,"date":"2019-08-09T14:23:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T14:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-lunar-rover-travels-271-meters-on-moons-far-side\/"},"modified":"2019-08-09T14:23:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T14:23:55","slug":"chinas-lunar-rover-travels-271-meters-on-moons-far-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-lunar-rover-travels-271-meters-on-moons-far-side\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s lunar rover travels 271 meters on moon&#8217;s far side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"Arial\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.cnsa.gov.cn\/english\/n6465652\/n6465653\/c6807108\/part\/6781689.png\">\u3000\u3000<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><br \/><\/font>BEIJING, Aug. 8 &#8212; China&#8217;s lunar rover Yutu-2 has driven 271 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration on the virgin territory.<\/p>\n<p>Both the lander and the rover of the Chang&#8217;e-4 probe switched to its dormant mode for the lunar night on Wednesday (Beijing time), according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-4 probe, launched on Dec. 8, 2018, made the first-ever soft landing on the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon on Jan. 3.<\/p>\n<p>A lunar day equals 14 days on Earth, a lunar night the same length. The Chang&#8217;e-4 probe switches to dormant mode during the lunar night due to lack of solar power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnsa.gov.cn\/english\/n6465652\/n6465653\/c6807108\/part\/6781690.png\"><\/p>\n<p>During the eighth lunar day of the probe on the moon, the scientific instruments on the lander and rover worked well, and a new batch of scientific detection data were sent to the core research team for analysis. (Xinhua)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>photo by CNSA\/CLEP<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3000\u3000 BEIJING, Aug. 8 &#8212; China&#8217;s lunar rover Yutu-2 has driven 271 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration on the virgin territory. Both the lander and the rover of the Chang&#8217;e-4 probe switched to its dormant mode for the lunar night on Wednesday (Beijing time), according to the Lunar [&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-4438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438"}],"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=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}