{"id":20889,"date":"2020-07-23T17:21:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T08:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/china-launches-space-rocket-in-ambitious-mars-landing-mission"},"modified":"2020-07-23T17:21:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T08:21:50","slug":"china-launches-space-rocket-in-ambitious-mars-landing-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20889","title":{"rendered":"China launches space rocket in ambitious Mars landing mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tianwen-1 mission attempts to put China in \u2018elite\u2019 club of countries conquering red planet<\/p>\n<p>China has launched its most ambitious Mars mission yet in a bold attempt to join the US in successfully landing a spacecraft on the red planet.<\/p>\n<p>With engines blazing orange, a Long March 5 carrier rocket took off on Thursday at about 12.40 pm local time (0540 BST) from Hainan Island, south of the Chinese mainland. Hundreds of space enthusiasts watched from a beach across the bay.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/china-launches-space-rocket-in-ambitious-mars-landing-mission\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tianwen-1 mission attempts to put China in \u2018elite\u2019 club of countries conquering red planetChina has launched its most ambitious Mars mission yet in a bold attempt to join the US in successfully landing a spacecraft on the red planet.With engines blazin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1446,1584,299,297,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-mars","category-nasa","category-science","category-space","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20890,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20889\/revisions\/20890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}