{"id":48603,"date":"2025-10-01T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/48603\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:55:09","slug":"chinas-tianwen-2-probe-captures-selfie-with-earth-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/48603\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Tianwen-2 probe captures selfie with Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ueditor-paragraph-media ueditor-paragraph-img\" tag=\"ueditor-paragraph-media\" style=\"text-indent: 0em; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16413286_550bd489fa85feccf25b5c13249f5053.jpg\" data-id=\"6999367\" data-mime-type=\"image\/png\" data-size=\"1379205\" data-original-name=\"79422cb4efd04963ab7af3fc06fbe0e8.jpg\" data-ext=\"jpg\" data-time=\"undefined\" data-save-path=\"image\/uploadpic\/20251001\/550bd489fa85feccf25b5c13249f5053.jpg\" data-filename=\"550bd489fa85feccf25b5c13249f5053.jpg\" data-domain=\"https:\/\/rmt-static.jfjb.com.cn\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"1024\" data-describe=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p tag=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" class=\"ueditor-text-p_display ueditor-text-tushuo\" style=\"\">This image released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Oct. 1, 2025 shows a view of the Tianwen-2 probe alongside Earth, captured by the probe during its deep-space journey. The newly released image, acquired by a monitoring camera mounted on the probe&#8217;s robotic arm, showcases China&#8217;s five-starred red flag and the white return capsule against the backdrop of a distant, blue Earth. (CNSA\/Handout via Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p tag=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" class=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" style=\"\">BEIJING, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) &#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 tag=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" class=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" style=\"\">The newly released image, acquired by a monitoring camera mounted on the probe&#8217;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 tag=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" class=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" style=\"\">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 tag=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" class=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" style=\"\">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 tag=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" class=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" style=\"\">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 tag=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" class=\"ueditor-text-p_display\" style=\"\">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.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This image released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Oct. 1, 2025 shows a view of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,10040,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-48603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-major","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}