{"id":590379,"date":"2026-09-04T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590379\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T22:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:04:15","slug":"china-narrows-tianwen-3-mars-sample-return-landing-site-selection-seeking-traces-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590379\/","title":{"rendered":"China narrows Tianwen-3 Mars sample return landing site selection, seeking traces of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HELSINKI \u2014 China will select a final landing site for its Tianwen-3 Mars sample return before the end of the year, while progress on mission hardware continues.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Register now to read<br \/>3 free articles this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You\u2019ll also receive our weekly Editor\u2019s Choice, SpaceNews This Week and Opinions newsletters. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><a href=\"#signin_modal\">Sign in to an existing account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/andrew-jones\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788559455_598_Andrew-jones-headshot-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndrew Jones writes about China&#8217;s space industry, including civilian programs, space science and exploration, policy, and commercial developments for SpaceNews, and writes the China Report newsletter. He has additional bylines in Scientific American,&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/andrew-jones\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Andrew Jones\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HELSINKI \u2014 China will select a final landing site for its Tianwen-3 Mars sample return before the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[607,6248,16230,111,139,69,147,2303,290745],"class_list":["post-590379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-china","tag-mars","tag-mars-sample-return","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-sn","tag-tianwen-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590379","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=590379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}