{"id":53927,"date":"2025-10-01T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/53927\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:00:08","slug":"chinas-tianwen-2-probe-captures-selfie-with-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/53927\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Tianwen-2 probe captures selfie with Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68dc7876a310f735017e3814.jpeg\" data-from=\"newsroom\" data-mimetype=\"image\/jpeg\" id=\"img-68dc7876a310f735017e3814\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>   [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] <\/p>\n<p>BEIJING &#8212; 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<p>The newly released image, acquired by a monitoring camera mounted on the probe&#8221;s robotic arm, showcases China&#8217;s five-starred red flag and the white return capsule against the backdrop of a distant, blue Earth.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, on May 29 &#8212; an endeavour to shed light on the formation and evolution of asteroids and the early solar system.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8212; The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Wednesday unveiled a remarkable image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[38512,114,61,60,82,38511],"class_list":["post-53927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-38512","tag-china","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-tianwen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}