{"id":106025,"date":"2020-04-25T03:08:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T10:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/china-reveals-name-logo-for-its-tianwen-first-mars-landing-mission"},"modified":"2020-04-25T03:08:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T10:08:30","slug":"china-reveals-name-logo-for-its-tianwen-first-mars-landing-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/china-reveals-name-logo-for-its-tianwen-first-mars-landing-mission","title":{"rendered":"China reveals name, logo for its \u2018Tianwen\u2019 first Mars landing mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.china-reveals-name-logo-for-its-tianwen-first-mars-landing-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 China revealed the name and logo for its first mission aimed at landing on the planet Mars to mark the 50th anniversary of its first satellite launch.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating the country\u2019s Space Day on Friday (April 24), the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced that its upcoming robotic mission to the Red Planet will be named \u201cTianwen-1.\u201d The name, borrowed from an ancient Chinese verse by poet Qu Yuan, translates to \u201cquestions about the heavens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn \u2018Tianwen,\u2019 Qu Yuan raised a series of questions in verse involving the sky, stars, natural phenomena, myths and the real world, showing his doubts about some traditional concepts and the spirit of seeking the truth,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-04\/24\/c_139004280.htm\">reported<\/a> the state-run Chinese news service Xinhua.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 China revealed the name and logo for its first mission aimed at landing on the planet Mars to mark the 50th anniversary of its first satellite launch. Celebrating the country\u2019s Space Day on Friday (April 24), the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced that its upcoming robotic mission to the Red Planet will be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}