The Chinese Tianwen-1 landed on the Red Planet in February 2021 as part of the country’s first mission.
The unmanned Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-1 sent images of various places on Mars, including its south pole. On Thursday, June 30, Peta Pixel was written.
It was learned that the Chinese space probe Tianwen-1 landed on the Red Planet in May 2021. He then began sending images of the nearby planet in high resolution to scientists on Earth.
During this time, Tianwen-1 collected images of almost the entire planet Mars, including the first images of the planet’s south pole, which scientists believe the water deposits may be concentrated.
Among the photographs taken from space are the first photographs of the south pole of Mars, where almost all of the planet’s water resources are supposedly concentrated.
“The discovery of groundwater is central to determining the planet’s potential for life, as well as to providing a permanent resource for any human research,” the statement said.
Among the photos taken by this probe are the edge of the large Maunder Crater and a bird’s eye view of the 18 km Askrey Mons volcano. The Chinese spacecraft also captured the 4,000-kilometer Valles Marineris canyon, or impact craters, high north of Mars in an area known as Arabia Terra.
China successfully launched the Tianwen-1 on July 23, 2020 aboard a Long March 5 Y-4 launch vehicle from the Wenchang launch site. The probe traveled a total of 474 million km and performed several maneuvers before entering Martian orbit on February 10, 2021. After more than 3 months of preparation, the probe released a lander that landed on Mars on May 15th.
Recall that the previous Persistence, thanks to two special microphones, recorded five hours of the sounds of the Martian wind, the crackle of the wheels and the sounds of the Ingenuity helicopter engines.
The American space agency NASA aims to land astronauts on Mars by 2040.
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