BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) — China released two new batches of data Monday, which were obtained by its Mars probe and its lunar probe.
The volume of scientific data collected between January and March this year by three scientific payloads including a high-resolution camera aboard Tianwen-1, China’s Mars probe, is nearly 68 GB, according to the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. for science.
This is the fifth version of the data collected by the probe. Tianwen-1, which consists of an orbiter, lander and rover, entered Mars orbit on February 10, 2021, becoming the country’s first probe to orbit the planet.
The astronomical observatory team also released the 38th scientific data obtained by four payloads installed on the lander and rover of the Chang’e-4 probe between April 15 and June 24 this year. And the size of that data is 2.7 GB.
The Chang’e-4 probe, launched on Dec. 8, 2018, made the first-ever soft landing on the Von Karmann Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the Moon on Jan. 3, 2019. End of story
