{"id":85629,"date":"2018-12-09T08:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T16:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/change-4-in-pictures-chinas-mission-to-the-moons-far-side"},"modified":"2018-12-09T08:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T16:42:23","slug":"change-4-in-pictures-chinas-mission-to-the-moons-far-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/change-4-in-pictures-chinas-mission-to-the-moons-far-side","title":{"rendered":"Chang\u2019e 4 in Pictures: China\u2019s Mission to the Moon\u2019s Far Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/change-4-in-pictures-chinas-mission-to-the-moons-far-side.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42665-china-launches-moon-far-side-lander-rover.html\" target=\"_blank\">launched its Chang\u2019e 4 mission to the far side of the moon<\/a> on Dec. 8, 2018 Beijing Time (Dec. 7 EST\/GMT). China is the first country ever to send a rover to soft-land on the lunar farside. See the mission photos here! This Image: The Long March 3B rocket carrying Chang\u2019e 4 lifts off from China\u2019s Xichang Satellite Launch Center.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: Jiang Hongjing\/Xinhua\/Zuma<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Chang\u2019e 4 lunar probe lifts off the pad at Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Dec. 7, 2018 (Dec. 8 local Chinese time).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42676-china-moon-far-side-chang-e-4-mission-pictures.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/42676-china-moon-far-side-chang-e-4-mission-pictures.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China launched its Chang\u2019e 4 mission to the far side of the moon on Dec. 8, 2018 Beijing Time (Dec. 7 EST\/GMT). China is the first country ever to send a rover to soft-land on the lunar farside. See the mission photos here! This Image: The Long March 3B rocket carrying Chang\u2019e 4 lifts off [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85629","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=85629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}