{"id":3922774,"date":"2025-11-10T16:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/chinas-tianwen-1-orbiter-spots-3i-atlas\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:05:18","slug":"chinas-tianwen-1-orbiter-spots-3i-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/chinas-tianwen-1-orbiter-spots-3i-atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Tianwen-1 orbiter spots 3I\/ATLAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The interstellar object known as 3I\/ATLAS just flew past Mars, and China&#8217;s Tianwen-1 mission managed to snap some pics with its high-resolution camera. According to the China National Space Agency (CNSA), the orbiter&#8217;s high-resolution camera captured images of the comet from a distance of about 30 million km (18.6 million mi). This makes the Tianwen-1 orbiter, which has been orbiting Mars for four years and eight months, one of the closest missions to observe the ISO since it was first detected (on May 7th, 2025).<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-11-china-tianwen-orbiter-3iatlas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interstellar object known as 3I\/ATLAS just flew past Mars, and China&#8217;s Tianwen-1 mission managed to snap some pics with its high-resolution camera. According to the China National Space Agency (CNSA), the orbiter&#8217;s high-resolution camera captured images of the comet from a distance of about 30 million km (18.6 million mi). This makes the Tianwen-1 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}