{"id":133691,"date":"2022-01-07T04:24:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/chinas-tianwen-1-spacecraft-took-a-selfie-using-a-tiny-secondary-spacecraft"},"modified":"2022-01-07T04:24:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:24:24","slug":"chinas-tianwen-1-spacecraft-took-a-selfie-using-a-tiny-secondary-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/chinas-tianwen-1-spacecraft-took-a-selfie-using-a-tiny-secondary-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Tianwen-1 Spacecraft Took a Selfie Using a Tiny, Secondary Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-tianwen-1-spacecraft-took-a-selfie-using-a-tiny-secondary-spacecraft2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember how China\u2019s Tianwen-1 spacecraft <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/151491\/chinas-mars-rover-seen-from-orbit-and-from-the-surface\/\" target=\"_blank\">released a remote camera to take a picture of itself<\/a> during its flight to Mars, back in late 2020? Now in Mars orbit, Tianwen-1 has done it again, releasing another mini remote camera. Except this time, the planet Mars is part of the view.<\/p>\n<p>The images are stunning.<\/p>\n<p>The China National Space Administration (CNSA) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsa.gov.cn\/english\/n6465652\/n6465653\/c6813041\/content.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published three pictures,<\/a> including a shot of the spacecraft in orbit with Mars in the background, a picture of Mars\u2019 northern ice caps, and the first full photo of the orbiter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how China\u2019s Tianwen-1 spacecraft released a remote camera to take a picture of itself during its flight to Mars, back in late 2020? Now in Mars orbit, Tianwen-1 has done it again, releasing another mini remote camera. Except this time, the planet Mars is part of the view. The images are stunning. The China [\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-133691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133691","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=133691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}