{"id":116183,"date":"2020-11-23T00:59:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T08:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/china-is-launching-a-moon-probe-to-collect-the-first-lunar-rocks-since-1970s"},"modified":"2020-11-23T00:59:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T08:59:32","slug":"china-is-launching-a-moon-probe-to-collect-the-first-lunar-rocks-since-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/china-is-launching-a-moon-probe-to-collect-the-first-lunar-rocks-since-1970s","title":{"rendered":"China is launching a moon probe to collect the first lunar rocks since 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-is-launching-a-moon-probe-to-collect-the-first-lunar-rocks-since-1970s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks \u2014 the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth\u2019s natural satellite since the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>The Chang\u2019e-5 probe, named after the ancient Chinese goddess of the moon, will seek to collect material that can help scientists understand more about the moon\u2019s origins and formation. The mission will test China\u2019s ability to remotely acquire samples from space, ahead of more complex missions.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, the mission will make China only the third country to have retrieved lunar samples, following the United States and the Soviet Union decades ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks \u2014 the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth\u2019s natural satellite since the 1970s. The Chang\u2019e-5 probe, named after the ancient Chinese goddess of the moon, will seek to collect material that can help scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116183","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\/116183","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}