{"id":129670,"date":"2016-02-07T23:28:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T06:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/07\/china-on-the-moon.html"},"modified":"2016-02-08T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:26:13","slug":"china-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/07\/china-on-the-moon.html","title":{"rendered":"China on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to China for their Chang&rsquo;e 3 lander and its rover, Yutu, landing on the Moon. Expanding our knowledge of the Solar System is a good thing, no matter who does it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/127176\/china-shares-stunning-new-moon-photos-with-the-world\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/4q_vPV934l8HJ2NV3ABR950TAmhMBYGPA0-qSR66vnXZIoKizT4Y25gMWcF4IUkm_rOUABHYVp7ctyTx1Gpu81v8Ybh5ozYgw5r6Ip3zLBkF9pQPnyx-Cx1DYt0iq0Sa7fBhzugf_dtp7Fq7yvtXPeBzWTaFuDjyKXvPmN8=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/127176\/china-shares-stunning-new-moon-photos-with-the-world\/'>China Shares Stunning New Moon Photos With the World &#8211; Universe Today<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nChina has released hundreds of photos from Chang&#8217;e 3 lunar lander and Yutu rover.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/a32buBGVTt1'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to China for their Chang&rsquo;e 3 lander and its rover, Yutu, landing on the Moon. Expanding our knowledge of the Solar System is a good thing, no matter who does it. China Shares Stunning New Moon Photos With the World &#8211; Universe Today China has released hundreds of photos from Chang&#8217;e 3 lunar lander &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/07\/china-on-the-moon.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;China on the Moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40083,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/15\/well-heres-an-underreported-space-exploration-story.html","url_meta":{"origin":129670,"position":0},"title":"Well, here&#39;s an underreported space exploration story","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Dec-13 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"How many folks (in the US, at least) know that China has landed a rover on the Moon?Reshared post from +Gary Ray RYutu Rover Rolls Onto Lunar Surface+Emily Lakdawalla\u00a0Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society has some of the best information on the historic Chinese moon rover landing.\u00a0Her post as of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129237,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/22\/and-now-for-a-bit-of-moon-science.html","url_meta":{"origin":129670,"position":1},"title":"And now for a bit of Moon science","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Dec-15 8:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Congrats to the Chinese for their discovery. 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