China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission Wednesday, sending Tianwen-2 to sample a near Earth asteroid and later survey a main belt comet.
I also just learned it’s named for a 2300 year old poem which asks questions like “who witnessed the creation of the universe, in order to write it down?” and “how far does the sun travel in a day?”
天问 is a cool name for a space science mission
It really is! I knew “Tian” so i could tell it would be appropriate but this prompted me to actually look up a translation. That’s so good!
(“Heavenly questions” for anyone wondering)
I also just learned it’s named for a 2300 year old poem which asks questions like “who witnessed the creation of the universe, in order to write it down?” and “how far does the sun travel in a day?”
hell yeah
Holy shit, Unicode can do that script over the characters thing?
You can use the view source button to see how formatting works on hexbear.
The text over text thing is done with {bottom text|top text} appearing like bottom text
Big news.
I cannot lie
Rather than Unicode, it uses the HTML
<ruby>taghttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/ruby