{"id":64604,"date":"2024-06-02T10:25:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T01:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/02\/chinas-change-6-probe-lands-on-far-side-of-the-moon"},"modified":"2024-06-02T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T01:25:55","slug":"chinas-change-6-probe-lands-on-far-side-of-the-moon-aiming-to-return-first-samples-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64604","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Chang\u2019e-6 probe lands on far side of the moon aiming to return first samples to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spacecraft  to collect samples from rarely explored area before attempting unprecedented liftoff from \u2018dark side\u2019 for trip home<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Chang\u2019e-6 lunar probe has successfully landed on the far side of the moon to collect samples, state media reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The lander set down in the immense South Pole-Aitken Basin, one of the largest known impact craters in the solar system, Xinhua news agency said, citing the China National Space Administration.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/02\/chinas-change-6-probe-lands-on-far-side-of-the-moon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacecraft  to collect samples from rarely explored area before attempting unprecedented liftoff from \u2018dark side\u2019 for trip homeChina\u2019s Chang\u2019e-6 lunar probe has successfully landed on the far side of the moon to collect samples, state media reported on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[50,1584,297,295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-nasa","category-space","category-the-moon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64604","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64605,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64604\/revisions\/64605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}