{"id":34354,"date":"2022-01-31T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=34354"},"modified":"2022-01-31T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T14:30:17","slug":"chinas-mars-mission-tianwen-1-orbiter-uses-selfie-stick-to-capture-ice-caps-on-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=34354","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Mars mission: Tianwen-1 orbiter uses \u2018selfie stick\u2019 to capture ice caps on red planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has published videos showing its Mars orbiter Tianwen-1 circling above the northern ice caps of the red planet taken using its \u201cselfie stick\u201d on Monday, the eve of Lunar New Year.In a pink-tinted video, the spacecraft can be seen flying against a landscape sprinkled with frost patches, which the China National Space Administration (CNSA) identified as ice caps.Unlike the ice on the Earth\u2019s polar regions, Martian ice is a mixture of frozen carbon dioxide and water.What is China\u2019s Tianwen 1\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3165392\/chinas-mars-mission-tianwen-1-orbiter-uses-selfie-stick-capture?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has published videos showing its Mars orbiter Tianwen-1 circling above the northern ice caps of the red planet taken using its \u201cselfie stick\u201d&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":34355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}