{"id":83587,"date":"2018-10-15T06:02:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T13:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/a-first-look-at-chinas-mars-simulation-base-out-in-the-gobi-desert"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:45:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T03:45:12","slug":"a-first-look-at-chinas-mars-simulation-base-out-in-the-gobi-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/a-first-look-at-chinas-mars-simulation-base-out-in-the-gobi-desert","title":{"rendered":"A first look at China\u2019s Mars simulation base out in the Gobi Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4MORdducpVw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s first Mars simulation base opened to the press on Friday in Gansu Province in the northwest of the country, providing a glimpse of the project mainly intended to popularise space among youth.<\/p>\n<p>The base is located in the Gobi Desert, 40 kilometres away from the downtown area of Jinchang, a city in Gansu. The natural features, landscape and climate are being described as resembling Martian conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-built base has an extravehicular site and nine modules, including an airlock module, a general control module and a bio-module.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gbtimes.com\/a-first-look-at-chinas-mars-simulation-base-out-in-the-gobi-desert\">https:\/\/gbtimes.com\/a-first-look-at-chinas-mars-simulation-b...obi-desert<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s first Mars simulation base opened to the press on Friday in Gansu Province in the northwest of the country, providing a glimpse of the project mainly intended to popularise space among youth. The base is located in the Gobi Desert, 40 kilometres away from the downtown area of Jinchang, a city in Gansu. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83587","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83730,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83587\/revisions\/83730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}