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MARS LANDING BY CHINA

  • May 16, 2021
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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MARS LANDING BY CHINA

Subject: Science & tech

Context: China landed a spacecraft on Mars carrying its first Mars rover in a big boost to its space ambitions.

Concept:

  • China had in July last year launched its first Mars mission, called Tianwen-1, meaning Questions to Heaven, carrying a lander and rover.
  • Tianwen-1 had been in orbit since February, and recently, a lander descended successfully on to the surface of the red planet.
  • Only the Soviet Union and the U.S. had previously carried out a successful landing on Mars.
  • China had previously tried to launch a Mars orbiter along with Russia in 2011, but that failed to enter orbit. This attempt, on its own, hit the target.

Zhurong Rover

  • China’s first Mars rover will be named Zhurong after a traditional fire god.
  • The rover is aboard the Tianwen-1 probe that arrived in Mars orbit on February 24 and is due to land in May to look for evidence of life.
  • The rover will provide “first-hand materials for research on the planet’s space environment, surface topography, and soil structure”.

About Tianwen-1:

  • China’s first Mars probe is called Tianwen-1 (formerly Huoxing 1).
  • The spacecraft consists of an orbiter, a lander and a rover.
  • Launched in 2020 on a Long March 5 rocket from Xichang, China.
  • Landing site: Somewhere in Utopia Planitia, a vast plain in Mars’ northern latitudes and the same place NASA’s Viking 2 mission landed in the 1970s.
MARS LANDING BY CHINA Science and tech

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