After exploring Mars for more than a year, China's Tianwen-1 space probe has successfully taken images covering the entire Red Planet, China's National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on June 29.
is China was attempting to become the first nation to successfully send an orbiter and rover to Mars on the first try.
Prior to that, the Soviet Union had attempted this feat with their Mars 2 and 3 missions in 1971, and Mars 6 in 1973. Mars 2 was an outright failure with the lander being destroyed and the orbiter sending back no data. On Mars 3, the orbiter obtained approximately eight months of data and while the lander touched down safely, it only returned 20 seconds of data. On Mars 6, the orbiter produced data from an occultation experiment, but the lander failed on descent.
While the probe entered Mars' orbit on 10 February 2021, the Zhurong rover didn't touch down on Mars until May 14 of that same year. It landed in Utopia Planitia, current home of NASA's Viking 2 spacecraft which landed in the vast Martian plain in 1975.in sediment dating to Mars' most recent geologic period which are likely associated with groundwater.
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