China successfully launches first Mars mission

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How much propellant is consumed during the maneuver?

 

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Soon we will see high quality Mars surface photo.

 

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China releases new images of Mars from Tianwen-1 probe - Xinhua | English.news.cn

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China releases new images of Mars from Tianwen-1 probe
Source: Xinhua | 2021-03-26 18:36:23 | Editor: huaxia

BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Friday released two new images of Mars captured by the country's Tianwen-1 probe.

In the images, Mars is crescent-shaped with a clear surface texture.

When the Tianwen-1 probe was 11,000 km away from Mars on the far side of the planet to the sun, it took panoramic photos of Mars with a medium-resolution camera onboard.

The Tianwen-1 probe has been operating in the parking orbit around Mars for a month. The high-resolution camera, medium-resolution camera, mineral spectrometer and other payloads onboard were switched on successively to carry out exploration of Mars and obtain scientific data, according to the CNSA.

 

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China state-affiliated media

China's first Mars rover has been named "Zhurong", which was revealed on Saturday at the opening ceremony of this year's events marking the Space Day of China in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province. "Zhurong" means the god of fire in Chinese mythology.


10:18 AM · Apr 24, 2021

 

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Chinese Zhurong Mars Rover @MarsZhurong

Landing tomorrow! Zhurong (Tianwen-1) rover will attempt to land on Mars at UTC May 14 11:00PM. Save the time and check the latest information. Wish me good luck and will keep you updated. Here is the landing animation for your reference. (from: http://youtu.be/viGy-KnG0mU)

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Chinese Zhurong Mars Rover @MarsZhurong
#Zhurong (Tianwen-1)Mars Rover Landing Sequence. Credit: CNSA, Cosmic Penguin, Vony7



2:10 PM · May 13, 2021

 

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Chinese Zhurong Mars Rover @MarsZhurong

Landing tomorrow! Zhurong (Tianwen-1) rover will attempt to land on Mars at UTC May 14 11:00PM. Save the time and check the latest information. Wish me good luck and will keep you updated. Here is the landing animation for your reference. (from: http://youtu.be/viGy-KnG0mU)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1392723806997917697

Chinese Zhurong Mars Rover @MarsZhurong
#Zhurong (Tianwen-1)Mars Rover Landing Sequence. Credit: CNSA, Cosmic Penguin, Vony7



2:10 PM · May 13, 2021

look forward to!

 

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Chinese Zhurong Mars Rover @MarsZhurong

Landing tomorrow! Zhurong (Tianwen-1) rover will attempt to land on Mars at UTC May 14 11:00PM. Save the time and check the latest information. Wish me good luck and will keep you updated. Here is the landing animation for your reference. (from: http://youtu.be/viGy-KnG0mU)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1392723806997917697

Chinese Zhurong Mars Rover @MarsZhurong
#Zhurong (Tianwen-1)Mars Rover Landing Sequence. Credit: CNSA, Cosmic Penguin, Vony7



2:10 PM · May 13, 2021

Woah tomorrow Wish all the best

 

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Good luck. All the best from Vietnam.

 

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China's Tianwen-1 mission to attempt daring Mars rover landing Friday

Since February, Tianwen-1 has been orbiting Mars, ready to deploy its lander and rover, Zhurong, to the surface of the red planet.

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China's Tianwen-1 set to attempt Mars rover landing on Friday
The Tianwen-1 spacecraft has been orbiting Mars since February and is finally ready to attempt a touchdown on the red planet.

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May 12, 2021 11:24 p.m. PT

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A view of Mars captured by China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft
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China may soon become just the third country to safely touch down on the surface of Mars.
On Friday, the China National Space Administration will attempt to land its rover Zhurong on the red planet, experiencing the so-called "seven minutes of terror" endured by Martian exploration robots, according to Chinese space watchers.
The ambitious Tianwen-1 mission to Mars launched in July 2020 and contains three spacecraft: an orbiter, which is now circling Mars, a lander and a rover. This is China's first mission to Mars and landing on the planet is a difficult task — Only around half of the trips to the planet have proven successful and no agency beside NASA has landed on the surface since 1973.
China has been relatively quiet about when we can expect the entry, descent and landing to begin, but reports suggest it will occur at 4:11 p.m. PT (11:11 p.m. UTC) on May 14. The lander and rover are currently encased within a protective shell, but will detach from the orbiter earlier and begin to head toward the surface.
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When it hits the Martian atmosphere, the (approximately) seven minutes of terror begins. The lander-rover duo will slam into the tenuous atmosphere, safely tucked within a heat shield. Once the spacecraft punches through, the heat shield will fall away and a parachute will be deployed to slow the vehicle down.
Zhurong's landing will look a little different to that made by NASA's Perseverance rover in February 2021. The NASA robot was lowered to the surface carefully via the agency's tried-and-true "skycrane" method, which saw the rover softly touch down in an ancient Mars lakebed.
Zhurong's descent will feel similar to Perseverance, but the lander will be doing all the work. It uses a suite of cameras and LIDAR to navigate to the surface. If the touchdown is a success, it will deploy a ramp for Zhurong to roll out onto Mars and begin its exploration mission.
The landing zone is Utopia Planitia, the same region of Mars where NASA's Viking 2 lander touched down in 1976. Viking 2 was a particularly interesting mission because some scientists suggested it had found signs of life.
China is aiming for Zhurong to spend 90 sols (Martian days) on the surface.
We'll be sure to have a livestream link if one becomes available -- but if the country's Chang'e missions to the moon are anything to go by, I wouldn't expect to see too much until landing has been confirmed. For those hungry for up-to-the-minute information, I'd suggest following journalist Andrew Jones and astronomy geek @Cosmic_Penguin.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1392712702582263808

Chinese Zhurong Mars Rover @MarsZhurong

Landing tomorrow! Zhurong (Tianwen-1) rover will attempt to land on Mars at UTC May 14 11:00PM. Save the time and check the latest information. Wish me good luck and will keep you updated. Here is the landing animation for your reference. (from: http://youtu.be/viGy-KnG0mU)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1392723806997917697

Chinese Zhurong Mars Rover @MarsZhurong
#Zhurong (Tianwen-1)Mars Rover Landing Sequence. Credit: CNSA, Cosmic Penguin, Vony7



2:10 PM · May 13, 2021

Good luck to you guys. Always good to see mankind explore the universe and make new strides/advancements in discovering more about our universe/solar system. Looking forward to the landing.

 

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If success, China be first country to successfully land on Mars on the first try.