{"id":4379,"date":"2022-01-01T14:33:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T14:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/chinese-mars-mission-sends-photos-of-the-red-planet\/"},"modified":"2022-01-01T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T14:33:56","slug":"chinese-mars-mission-sends-photos-of-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/chinese-mars-mission-sends-photos-of-the-red-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Mars mission sends photos of the Red Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.cnsa.gov.cn\/english\/n6465652\/n6465653\/c6813041\/part\/6788440.png\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>\u3000\u3000The China National Space Administration published on Saturday four pictures taken by its Tianwen 1 Mars mission, including the first full photo of the mission orbiter.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000The color pictures show the orbiter flying around the Red Planet in an orbit, the ice cover on Mars\u2019 north pole and a scene of a barren Martian plain.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000The orbiter\u2019s full picture was taken by a camera released by the craft, which is now about 350 million kilometers away from Earth, the administration said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000Launched in July 2020 from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province, the Tianwen 1 robotic probe, named after an ancient Chinese poem, traveled a total of 475 million kilometers and carried out several trajectory maneuvers before entering Martian orbit on Feb 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000After over three months of preparations, a landing capsule released by the probe descended through the Martian atmosphere in an extremely challenging landing process and finally touched down on the Red Planet on May 15, making China the second country, after the United States, to have successfully conducted Martian landing.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000On May 22, the Chinese rover Zhurong traveled onto the Martian soil, becoming the sixth rover on Mars, following five predecessors from the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000As of Saturday morning, the 1.85-meter-tall, 240-kilogram Zhurong had worked on Martian land for 224 days \u2013 far outliving its three-month life expectancy. The rover had traveled more than 1,400 meters.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000The Tianwen 1 mission has obtained and transmitted nearly 540 gigabytes of data, mission controllers at the China National Space Administration said, adding it still has sufficient energy and is in good condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnsa.gov.cn\/english\/n6465652\/n6465653\/c6813041\/part\/6788441.png\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnsa.gov.cn\/english\/n6465652\/n6465653\/c6813041\/part\/6788442.png\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnsa.gov.cn\/english\/n6465652\/n6465653\/c6813041\/part\/6788443.png\"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3000\u3000The China National Space Administration published on Saturday four pictures taken by its Tianwen 1 Mars mission, including the first full photo of the mission orbiter. \u3000\u3000The color pictures show the orbiter flying around the Red Planet in an orbit, the ice cover on Mars\u2019 north pole and a scene of a barren Martian plain. 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