{"id":4447,"date":"2019-03-04T13:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-change-4-probe-resumes-to-work-after-lunar-night\/"},"modified":"2019-03-04T13:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:02:26","slug":"chinas-change-4-probe-resumes-to-work-after-lunar-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-change-4-probe-resumes-to-work-after-lunar-night\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-4 probe resumes to work after lunar night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\">China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-4 probe resumes to work after lunar night<br \/>\u3000\u3000<br \/>The rover and the lander of the Chang&#8217;e-4 probe have resumed work after &#8220;sleeping&#8221; during their second lunar night on the far side of the moon.<br \/>\u3000\u3000<br \/>The lander woke up at 7:52 a.m. last Friday, and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at about 10:51 a.m.&nbsp; last Thursday. Both of them are in normal condition, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.<br \/>\u3000\u3000<br \/>China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-4 probe, launched on Dec. 8 in 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.<br \/>\u3000\u3000<br \/>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.<br \/>\u3000\u3000<br \/>As a result of the tidal locking effect, the moon&#8217;s revolution cycle is the same as its rotation cycle, and it always faces Earth with the same side.<br \/>\u3000\u3000<br \/>The far side of the moon has unique features, and scientists expect Chang&#8217;e-4 could bring breakthrough findings.<br \/>\u3000\u3000<br \/>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.<br \/>\u3000\u3000<br \/>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)<\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-4 probe resumes to work after lunar night\u3000\u3000The rover and the lander of the Chang&#8217;e-4 probe have resumed work after &#8220;sleeping&#8221; during their second lunar night on the far side of the moon.\u3000\u3000The lander woke up at 7:52 a.m. last Friday, and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at about 10:51 a.m.&nbsp; last Thursday. [&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-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447"}],"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=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}