{"id":4441,"date":"2019-07-11T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-change-4-probe-switches-to-dormant-mode\/"},"modified":"2019-07-11T16:21:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T16:21:39","slug":"chinas-change-4-probe-switches-to-dormant-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-change-4-probe-switches-to-dormant-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-4 probe switches to dormant mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Both the lander and the rover of the Chang&#8217;e-4 probe switched to dormant mode for the lunar night on the far side of the moon on Tuesday morning (Beijing Time).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.cnsa.gov.cn\/english\/n6465652\/n6465653\/c6806820\/part\/6781402.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">photo by CNSA\/CLEP <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The scientific instruments on the Chang&#8217;e-4 probe worked well during the seventh lunar day after the probe 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, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A new batch of 1.2 G scientific detection data obtained by the probe was sent to the core research team for analysis in early July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnsa.gov.cn\/english\/n6465652\/n6465653\/c6806820\/part\/6781403.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">photo by CNSA\/CLEP <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A lunar day equals 14 days on Earth, and a lunar night is the same length. The Chang&#8217;e-4 probe switched to a dormant mode during the lunar night due to the lack of solar power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As a result of the tidal locking effect, the moon&#8217;s revolution cycle is the same as its rotation cycle, and the same side always faces Earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The scientific tasks of the Chang&#8217;e-4 mission include low-frequency radio astronomical observation, surveying the terrain and landforms, detecting the mineral composition and shallow lunar surface structure and measuring neutron radiation and neutral atoms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Chang&#8217;e-4 mission embodies China&#8217;s hope to combine human wisdom in space exploration with four payloads developed by the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Saudi Arabia.(Xinhua) <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the lander and the rover of the Chang&#8217;e-4 probe switched to dormant mode for the lunar night on the far side of the moon on Tuesday morning (Beijing Time). photo by CNSA\/CLEP The scientific instruments on the Chang&#8217;e-4 probe worked well during the seventh lunar day after the probe made the first-ever soft-landing on [&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-4441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441"}],"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=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}