{"id":25296,"date":"2020-12-02T13:04:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T04:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/02\/change-5-why-has-china-sent-a-probe-to-the-moon"},"modified":"2020-12-02T13:04:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T04:04:35","slug":"change-5-why-has-china-sent-a-probe-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25296","title":{"rendered":"Chang\u2019e-5: why has China sent a probe to the moon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unmanned Chang\u2019e-5 spacecraft has landed on the moon to pick up lunar rock samples, something not attempted since the 1970s<\/p>\n<p>China has successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/dec\/01\/china-moon-rocks-change-5-spacecraft\">landed a probe on the moon<\/a>. There, the unmanned Chang\u2019e-5 will prepare to collect the first lunar samples gathered since the Soviet Union\u2019s Luna 24 mission in 1976. Here is everything you need to know:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/02\/change-5-why-has-china-sent-a-probe-to-the-moon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unmanned Chang\u2019e-5 spacecraft has landed on the moon to pick up lunar rock samples, something not attempted since the 1970sChina has successfully landed a probe on the moon. There, the unmanned Chang\u2019e-5 will prepare to collect the first lunar samp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"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":[41,50,299,297,295,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-science","category-space","category-the-moon","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25296","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\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25297,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25296\/revisions\/25297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}