{"id":562530,"date":"2019-01-01T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=859c364e7c690eb9bfef8949e45b044b"},"modified":"2019-01-01T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T09:58:00","slug":"chinas-lunar-lander-to-explore-moons-far-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=562530","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Lunar Lander To Explore Moon&#8217;s Far Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/12\/28\/443897main_aitken-lola-full2_wide-d90c814932b48942f3525a0f8c8fa46be4028530.jpg?s=600' alt='The Chinese lunar lander Chang'e 4 is headed to Aitken Basin, a large impact crater near the moon's south pole, pictured here in blue. The distance from the depths of Aitken Basin to the tops of the highest surrounding peaks is nearly twice the height of Mount Everest, according to NASA.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Early in 2019, China hopes to land a rover \u2014 the first soft landing on the moon&#8217;s far side. The mission is exploratory, and will lay groundwork for a trip by Chinese astronauts to the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/Goddard)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=680542096' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in 2019, China hopes to land a rover &mdash; the first soft landing on the moon&#8217;s far side. The mission is exploratory, and will lay groundwork for a trip by Chinese astronauts to the lunar surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562531,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562530\/revisions\/562531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}