{"id":4573,"date":"2015-09-11T09:48:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T09:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinas-lunar-orbiter-gets-close-up-pictures-of-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T09:48:40","slug":"chinas-lunar-orbiter-gets-close-up-pictures-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinas-lunar-orbiter-gets-close-up-pictures-of-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s lunar orbiter gets close-up pictures of the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China obtained detailed images of a planned Moon landing site on Wednesday, where a future Chang&#8217;e-5 mission is expected to conduct a soft landing and collect samples.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures, with a resolution of 1 meter, were captured by an orbiting service module put in place by the country&#8217;s returned unmanned lunar orbiter launched in October last year, according to a statement by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND).<\/p>\n<p>The SASTIND said the pictures were taken by at a point 30 km from the Moon between Sunday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The module also simulated moves and the controlling process expected to be conducted by the orbiting and ascender modules of the Chang&#8217;e-5 probe prior to a scheduled rendezvous by the two modules in the Moon&#8217;s orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the current service module is in good condition and will carry out further scientific experiments to study the lunar gravity field.<\/p>\n<p>The latest mission is to obtain data for the Chang&#8217;e-5 probe scheduled for 2017, which will see an unmanned spacecraft land on the Moon, collect samples and return to Earth.\uff08Xinhua\uff09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China obtained detailed images of a planned Moon landing site on Wednesday, where a future Chang&#8217;e-5 mission is expected to conduct a soft landing and collect samples. The pictures, with a resolution of 1 meter, were captured by an orbiting service module put in place by the country&#8217;s returned unmanned lunar orbiter launched in October [&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-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573"}],"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=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}