{"id":19856,"date":"2019-08-16T18:14:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=19856"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:14:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:14:41","slug":"china-shoots-the-moon-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/china-shoots-the-moon-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"China shoots the moon's far side"},"content":{"rendered":"

China displayed new photographs of the moon taken by the spacecraft <\/b>Chang\u2019e 4,<\/b><\/a> undertaken on the moon\u2019s far side for eight (8) days. This side of the moon has never been photographed before.<\/b>
\nWith this feat, China has become a formidable force in the international scene\u00a0in different sectors such as technology and science.<\/span>
\nChang’e 4 is a robotic spacecraft mission, part of the second phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program.
\nIts rover and lander have been instrumental in sending the latest photos taken as experiments progressed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

China\u2019s early January journey<\/b><\/h2>\n

Chang\u2019e 4 expedition successfully landed on the moon on January 3, 2019. This was a substantial advancement as it became the first robotic journey to get to the moon\u2019s far side.<\/b> \u00a0<\/span>
\nA communication relay satellite, Queqiao, was first launched to a halo orbit near the Earth-Moon L\u2082 point in May 2018.<\/span>
\nSome of the findings gained include nights and days each corresponds to nearly two weeks found on earth. Moreover, the <\/span>nights are frigid.\u00a0<\/span><\/a>
\nNevertheless, the expedition has been progressing quite well despite the brutal conditions.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

China\u2019s exceptional Chang\u2019e 4 expedition<\/b><\/h2>\n

On July 9<\/b><\/a>, the seventh workday concluded, and two robots were instrumental in finishing different measurements utilizing radio devices, infrared spectrometers, radiation instruments, and neutron detectors.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThey then shut down for two weeks before commencing once more for an eighth workday that began on July 26 and concluded on <\/span>August 7<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe China Lunar Exploration Project asserted that by this time, the rover had covered eight hundred and ninety (890) feet or two-hundred and seventy-one (271) meters on the moon\u2019s far end.\u00a0<\/b>
\nInterestingly, the moon\u2019s far side is entirely distinctive from the earth\u2019s visible part.\u00a0<\/span>
\nAs a result, scientists are puzzled by these differences, but they hope this mystery can be resolved by Yutu 2 rover and Chang\u2019e 4 lander.\u00a0<\/b>
\nMoon\u2019s missions have been carried out by different nations for several purposes. <\/span>For instance, India intends to get to the moon\u2019s orbit on August 20 through an expedition known as <\/b>Chandrayaan 2<\/b><\/a>.<\/b> It is a follow up of Chandrayaan 1 that was pivotal in showing the <\/span>presence of hydroxyl or water on the moon<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nOn the other hand, NASA has asked students to be part of a space exploration intended at setting <\/b>humans to the moon in 2024<\/b><\/a>.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China displayed new photographs of the moon taken by the spacecraft Chang\u2019e 4, undertaken on the moon\u2019s far side for eight (8) days. This side of the moon has never been photographed before. With this feat, China has become a formidable force in the international scene\u00a0in different sectors such as technology and science. Chang’e 4 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":19851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[277,278,295,945,1418,1582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}