China’s Tianwen-1 has Imaged the Entire Surface of Mars, Completing its Primary Mission

China’s Tianwen-1 has Imaged the Entire Surface of Mars, Completing its Primary Mission - by ET_Exists

An image of dunes on Mars, taken by the Zhurong rover of the Tianwen-1 probe shortly before it entered dormancy in May 2022. Black-and-white picture of Mars taken by Tianwen 1. While the probe entered Mars’ orbit on February 10, 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.

While Tianwen-1 makes China only the third nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the surface of Mars, the European Space Agency , India, and the United Arab Emirates have successfully sent their respective spacecraft to orbit the Red Planet.

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