China has launched an ambitious mission to Mars. It'll attempt to deploy an orbiter, lander and rover after the Tianwen-1 spacecraft enters Mars’ orbit in February. If it succeeds, China will become the first nation to achieve such a complex feat.
TIANWEN1,CHINA'S MISSION TO MARS 天问系列的首次火星探测任务(first Mars exploration mission)火星-Mars,来自拉丁语Mars,火星因为其橘红色外表而被中国人成为“火星”,古希腊人却由其联想至鲜血,因此以古...
As the Tianwen-1 spacecraft is scheduled for launch in late July or early August, the mission chief scientist and his team provide an overview focusing on the scientific objectives and instrumentation of China’s first Mars mission.
Step one, at the technology preparation phase, China will send robots to Mars for tasks including returning samples, surveying possible sites for the future base, and building systems to make use of resources on-site. An uncrewed round-trip mission to collectsamplesfrom Mars is ...
China launched its first independent Mars mission on Thursday from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province, marking the start of the nation's planetary exploration program.As the launch sequence started at 12:41 pm, 10 en...
China successfully launched an unmanned probe to Mars on Thursday in its first independent mission to another planet, in a display of its technological prowess and ambition to join an elite club of space-faring nations. China’s largest carrier rocket, the Long March 5 Y-4, blasted off with...
China is aiming to launch its first mission to Mars around 2020, the director of the National Space Administration announced on Friday. "The probe is expected to orbit the red planet, land and deploy a rover all in one mission, which is quite difficult to achieve," said Xu Dazhe at a ...
China has made it toMars. The nation’s first fully homegrown Mars mission,Tianwen-1, arrived in orbit around the Red Planet today (Feb. 10), according to Chinese media reports. The milestone makes China the sixth entity to get a probe to Mars, joining the United States, the Sovi...
Message from the Guest Editors of the Special Issue on Entry,Descent,and Landing of Tianwen-1—China's First Mission to Mars planethasdestinationDear authors and readers,Mars is the outer neighboring planet to our planet,the Earth,which has long been the destination of the deep space ...
China landed a spacecraft(航天器) on Mars for thefirst time. This makes China the first country to makea successful landing on Mars on its first mission toMars. China's Zhurong rover(探测车), named after atraditional Chinese fire god, has touched down on Mars,the China National Space Adm...