China's Tianwen 1 orbiter produces global map of Mars (video)

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The mission's data will be used in the planning for China's next Mars expedition.

China's space authorities have released a series of global images of Mars produced from data gathered by the country's first interplanetary mission, Tianwen 1.

were released by the China National Space Administration and the Chinese Academy of Sciences at an event marking China's national space day, held April 24 in the city of Hefei, in eastern China's Anhui Province.include an orthographic projection of Mars' eastern and western hemispheres and other types of sphere-to-flat surface projections. The images have a spatial resolution of 249 feet per pixel.

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