The Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) is publishing mid-flight photos of Mars probe Tianwen-1, as the country’s national day coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival on October 1, 2020. This is the first time Tianwen-1 is taking selfies. Photo: Xinhua
Tianwen-1, the country’s first ever Mars probe, is expected to arrive in the Red Planet’s gravitational field and perform a brake maneuver around 10 February. a day before Chinese New Year’s Eve.
Tianwen-1 traveled more than 450 million kilometers from Wednesday and brought it 170 million kilometers from Earth, according to the latest update from the developer, the state-owned space giant China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.
The aircraft will fly into orbit on July 23, 2020 from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan Province in southern China.
It aims to land on the planet by mid-May 2021, where it will release the country’s first Mars rover to do a survey mission. A campaign to get a name for the rover, which has created excitement among tens of thousands of Chinese netizens on social media platforms, has been reduced to ten candidates.
Currently, sin is racing in the direction of the Red Planet after completing several tasks, including capturing a group shot of the earth and the moon, a ‘self-portrait’ in space, three corrections in half, ways in the space and a number of self according to the company.
Global Times