{"id":142072,"date":"2022-07-12T01:37:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T06:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/chinese-spacecraft-acquires-images-of-entire-planet-of-mars"},"modified":"2022-07-12T01:37:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T06:37:04","slug":"chinese-spacecraft-acquires-images-of-entire-planet-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/chinese-spacecraft-acquires-images-of-entire-planet-of-mars","title":{"rendered":"Chinese spacecraft acquires images of entire planet of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-spacecraft-acquires-images-of-entire-planet-of-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BEIJING, June 29 (Reuters) \u2014 An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft has acquired imagery data covering all of Mars, including visuals of its south pole, after circling the planet more than 1,300 times since early last year, state media reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Tianwen-1 successfully reached the Red Planet in February 2021 on the country\u2019s inaugural mission there. A robotic rover has since been deployed on the surface as an orbiter surveyed the planet from space.<\/p>\n<p>Among the images taken from space were China\u2019s first photographs of the Martian south pole, where almost all of the planet\u2019s water resources are locked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, June 29 (Reuters) \u2014 An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft has acquired imagery data covering all of Mars, including visuals of its south pole, after circling the planet more than 1,300 times since early last year, state media reported on Wednesday. China\u2019s Tianwen-1 successfully reached the Red Planet in February 2021 on the country\u2019s inaugural mission [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142072","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}