TRIBUNBATAM.id – China start to match United States of America (USA) in terms of technological progress.
This is at least seen when the National Space Agency China or China The National Space Administration (CNSA) shared four photos of the planet Mars from the Tianwen-1 mission.
China is the second country after United States of America who managed to land his spacecraft on Mars.
Space explorer China, Zhu Rong which means god of fire is listed to land on this red planet on May 22, 2021.
The space rover Zhu Rong, which is 1.85 meters tall and weighs 240 kilograms, explored land on Mars for 224 days.
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The robotic probe Tianwen-1 first launched on July 23, 2020 and orbits around Mars seven months later or around February 2021.
Mission from spaceship China is to explore the surface and geology of the planet and examine its magnetic field, soil composition, and atmosphere.
The researchers also included the first photos of the orbiter mission that were shown in full on Saturday (1/1/2022).
They use removable sensors and are equipped with two wide-angle lenses on the outer wall of the probe or earth-controlled spacecraft.
The color photo shows the orbiter flying around the Red Planet in an orbit the CNSA has identified as the ice sheet at Mars’ north pole.
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