{"id":122599,"date":"2021-05-15T00:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T07:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/chinas-1st-mars-rover-zhurong-lands-on-the-red-planet"},"modified":"2021-05-15T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T07:22:21","slug":"chinas-1st-mars-rover-zhurong-lands-on-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/chinas-1st-mars-rover-zhurong-lands-on-the-red-planet","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s 1st Mars rover \u2018Zhurong\u2019 lands on the Red Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-1st-mars-rover-zhurong-lands-on-the-red-planet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China just successfully landed its first rover on Mars, becoming only the second nation to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/tianwen-1.html\">Tianwen-1 mission<\/a>, China\u2019s first interplanetary endeavor, reached the surface of the Red Planet Friday (May 14) at approximately 7:11 p.m. EDT (2311 GMT), though Chinese space officials have not yet confirmed the exact time and location of touchdown. Tianwen-1 (which translates to \u201cHeavenly Questions\u201d) arrived in Mars\u2019 orbit in February after launching to the Red Planet on a Long March 5 rocket in July 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China just successfully landed its first rover on Mars, becoming only the second nation to do so. The Tianwen-1 mission, China\u2019s first interplanetary endeavor, reached the surface of the Red Planet Friday (May 14) at approximately 7:11 p.m. EDT (2311 GMT), though Chinese space officials have not yet confirmed the exact time and location of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122599","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=122599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}