{"id":95855,"date":"2025-10-01T00:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/95855\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:55:08","slug":"chinas-tianwen-2-probe-captures-selfie-with-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/95855\/","title":{"rendered":"China’s Tianwen-2 probe captures selfie with Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] <\/p>\n

BEIJING — The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Wednesday unveiled a remarkable image of the Tianwen-2 probe alongside Earth, captured during its deep-space journey.<\/p>\n

The newly released image, acquired by a monitoring camera mounted on the probe”s robotic arm, showcases China’s five-starred red flag and the white return capsule against the backdrop of a distant, blue Earth.<\/p>\n

According to CNSA, the Tianwen-2 probe is currently approximately 43 million kilometers from Earth and 45 million kilometers from the asteroid 2016HO3.<\/p>\n

The probe has successfully completed a series of in-orbit tests, including the deployment of sampling devices and self-checks of electronic devices. All systems are reported to be functioning normally, while onboard instruments have begun collecting valuable scientific data on the space environment, according to the CNSA.<\/p>\n

China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, on May 29 — an endeavour to shed light on the formation and evolution of asteroids and the early solar system.<\/p>\n

The mission aims to achieve multiple goals over a decade-long expedition: collecting samples from near-Earth asteroid 2016HO3 and exploring the main-belt comet 311P, which is farther from Earth than Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] BEIJING — The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Wednesday unveiled a remarkable image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[61635,381,18,19,17,133,61634],"class_list":{"0":"post-95855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-61635","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-tianwen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}