{"id":64962,"date":"2020-12-06T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=64962"},"modified":"2020-12-06T23:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T04:00:30","slug":"china-japan-both-returning-solar-system-samples-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2020\/12\/06\/china-japan-both-returning-solar-system-samples-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"China, Japan Both Returning Solar System Samples to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e 5 mission&#8217;s orbiter and ascendor are on their way back to Earth with extensive lunar soil samples from various depths, a Japanese space capsule returning the world\u2019s first asteroid subsurface samples has landed in the remote Australian Outback. The spacecraft Hayabusa2 (&#8222;Peregrine Falcon2&#8220;) released the small capsule on Saturday and sent it towards Earth to deliver samples from a distant asteroid. At about 6 miles above ground, a parachute was opened to slow its fall and beacon signals were transmitted to indicate its location in the sparsely populated area of Woomera in southern Australia. It is reported recovered &#8222;in perfect shape&#8220;.<br><br>Chang\u2019e 5, after lifting off the lunar surface on Thursday, completed the ascendor&#8217;s docking with its orbiter on Sunday, on its mission to bring back lunar samples for the first time in more than 40 years. A robot arm lifted the container holding the samples into the orbiter. The orbiter will separate from the probe and leave lunar orbit on its return journey to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e 5 mission&#8217;s orbiter and ascendor are on their way back to Earth with extensive lunar soil samples from various depths, a Japanese space capsule returning the world\u2019s first asteroid subsurface samples has landed in the remote Australian Outback. The spacecraft Hayabusa2 (&#8222;Peregrine Falcon2&#8220;) released the small capsule on Saturday and sent it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":64963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-64962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64973,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64962\/revisions\/64973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}