Tianwen-2 Looks Back at the Earth

Tianwen-2 Looks Back at the Earth
By Matthew Williams (https://ift.tt/3EMyhYL)

China's asteroid probe turned its cameras back towards the Earth and Moon, capturing an image of our home planet on May 30, 2025. The image was taken when the spacecraft was about 590,000 km away, speeding towards asteroid 2016HO3, where it will retrieve a sample and bring it back to Earth before carrying on to main-belt comet 311P. The spacecraft has been in flight for 33 days and is now over 12 million kilometers from Earth.

July 3, 2025 at 01:54AM
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