China’s Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled around 100 million km as of 10:08 a.m. Friday, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).<\/p>\n
The Mars probe is in stable condition and its multiple payloads have finished self-checks. It has traveled in orbit for 36 days and is 10.75 million km away from Earth.<\/p>\n
The Mars probe was sent into the Earth-Mars transfer orbit by a Long March-5 rocket on July 23. It is expected to travel 470 million km before arriving on Mars, and will be about 195 million km away from Earth by then, according to a source from the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the CNSA.<\/p>\n
So far, the Mars probe has captured an image of Earth and the moon and conducted its first orbital correction. Starting from 10:20 p.m. on Aug. 19, multiple payloads on the Mars probe, including the Mars magnetometer, Mars mineralogy spectrometer and high-resolution camera, have completed self-checks. The scientific data of the payloads were transmitted to the ground smoothly, confirming that they are in normal condition. Multiple flight control tasks were also carried out normally.<\/p>\n
The probe will conduct deep-space maneuvers and several orbital corrections, and carry out orbiting, landing and roving missions when it approaches the Mars orbit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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