{"id":53398,"date":"2025-10-01T03:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/53398\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:46:10","slug":"chinas-tianwen-2-probe-captures-selfie-with-earth-xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/53398\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Tianwen-2 probe captures selfie with Earth-Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" controls=\"controls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025100102dd1a1ab476481e86a30d63e84fb107_XxjwshE000007_20251001_CBMFN0A001.JPG\"\/>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. (CNSA\/Handout via Xinhua)<\/p>\n<p>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>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>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.\u00a0 \u25a0<\/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":53399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[607,111,139,69,147,7877],"class_list":{"0":"post-53398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-tianwen-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}