{"id":265693,"date":"2025-11-06T03:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265693\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T03:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T03:52:10","slug":"chinas-mars-orbiter-observes-interstellar-object-3i-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/265693\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Mars orbiter observes interstellar object 3I\/ATLAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/d34b1314fdfd3b8701f09ef8ab621f5f.jpg\"\/>A photo published by the China National Space Administration on Jan 1, 2022, shows the Tianwen 1 robotic probe&#8217;s orbiter flying around Mars. The picture is transmitted back to Earth by the probe itself. (PHOTO \/ XINHUA)<\/p>\n<p>BEIJING &#8211; The orbiter of China&#8217;s Mars mission <a href=\"http:\/\/172.16.3.184\/hk\/article\/282172#Tianwen-1-probe-sends-back-images-of-Martian-satellite-2022-07-23\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tianwen-1<\/a> has successfully observed an interstellar object, coded 3I\/ATLAS, using its high-resolution camera, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).<\/p>\n<p>During the observation, the spacecraft was about 30 million kilometers from 3I\/ATLAS, making it one of the closest observations by a probe of this interstellar object.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: <a href=\"http:\/\/172.16.3.184\/hk\/article\/265072#China-releases-images-of-Martian-dust-taken-by-Tianwen-1-orbiter-2022-03-24\" rel=\"nofollow\">China releases images of Martian dust taken by Tianwen-1 orbiter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Data received and processed by the ground application system showed clear cometary features in the images. Researchers created an animation from a series of images taken over 30 seconds, demonstrating the object&#8217;s movement through space. These observations are now being used for further scientific study of 3I\/ATLAS.<\/p>\n<p>This successful observation represents an important extended mission for Tianwen-1. The detection of such a faint celestial object serves as a valuable technical test for China&#8217;s Tianwen-2 mission, which was launched in May &#8212; aiming to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and explore a main-belt comet, the CNSA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photo published by the China National Space Administration on Jan 1, 2022, shows the Tianwen 1 robotic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,512,155271,128],"class_list":["post-265693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-orbiter","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}