{"id":263152,"date":"2016-08-22T14:08:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T14:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chinese-scientists-study-viability-of-manned-radar-station-on-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2016-08-22T14:08:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T14:08:58","slug":"chinese-scientists-study-viability-of-manned-radar-station-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chinese-scientists-study-viability-of-manned-radar-station-on-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists study viability of manned radar station on the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>China has commissioned a group of scientists to study the feasibility of building a manned radar station on the moon, but many experts on the mainland have questioned the potentially massive cost of the project and the usefulness of building such a base.<\/p>\n<p>The government project was launched earlier this year and received kick-start funding of 16 million yuan (HK$18.7 million) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed facility, which may include quarters for astronauts and a powerful radar antenna array at least 50 metres high, could monitor wider areas of our planet than existing satellites, according to scientists involved in the study.<\/p>\n<p>The base, which would be used for scientific research and defence monitoring, could also produce more powerful and clearer images of earth as the high-frequency microwaves emitted by the radar station could not only penetrate cloud, but also the earth\u2019s surface, allowing it to monitor areas on land, under the sea and underground.<\/p>\n<p>Leading space scientists in China have joined the radar station project.<\/p>\n<p>The team held a two-day brainstorming session at the Fragrant Hill Hotel in Beijing last month.<\/p>\n<p>Those taking part included Yan Jun, the director of the National Astronomical Observatories; Professor Lin Yangting, a planetary researcher whose team discovered evidence of coal-like carbon in an asteroid; and senior scientists from China\u2019s unmanned lunar exploration missions.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/chinese-scientists-study-viability-of-manned-radar-station-on-the-moon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has commissioned a group of scientists to study the feasibility of building a manned radar station on the moon, but many experts on the mainland have questioned the potentially massive cost of the project and the usefulness of building such a base. The government project was launched earlier this year and received kick-start funding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}