The color image shows the orbiter flying around the Red Planet in orbit, the ice sheet at Mars’ north pole, and a view of the barren plains of Mars. The full image of the orbiter was taken by camera released by Tianwen 1, which is now about 350 million kilometers from Earth.
Quoted from SINDOnews from the parabolicarc page, Monday (3/1/2022), the robotic probe Tianwen 1 was launched in July 2020 from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province and covered a total of 475 million kilometers. Tianwen 1 performed several maneuvers before entering Mars orbit on February 10. (Read also; 6 Locations on Earth that Are Most Similar to Mars, Number 3 Frequently Visited by Tourists )
After more than three months of preparation, a landing capsule released by the probe descended through the Martian atmosphere in the process of landing on May 15, 2021. China became the second country, after the United States, to successfully land on Mars.
On May 22, the Chinese rover Zhurong crossed land on the planet Mars and became the sixth rover on the Red planet, following five predecessors from the US. The rover has traveled more than 1,400 meters on Mars and is still energized and in good shape. (Read also; The launch of the 54th and 55th satellites in five hours, China sends the most space missions in 2021 )
On the morning of Saturday January 1, 2022, the 1.85-meter-tall and 240-kilogramme Zhurong had explored land on Mars for 224 days – far more than its estimated three months. “Mission Tianwen 1 has acquired and transmitted nearly 540 gigabytes of data,” said mission controller at China’s National Space Agency (CNSA).
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