After operating for 706 days and circling the red planet over 1,344 times, the orbiter of Tianwen-1 has acquired medium-resolution image data that covers the whole globe of Mars. The Tianwen-1 ...

The Tianwen-1 mission will include both a Mars orbiter as well as a lander and ... China’s scientists hope to achieve five primary goals: (1) to map the morphology and geological structure ...

Named Tianwen-1, the Chinese orbiter-rover combo needs ... It would circle and map Mars until the rover separates and attempts to land in May to look for water underground and signs of ancient ...

China’s mission, Tianwen-1 (which means ‘questions to heaven’), aims to conduct a global survey of Mars, including studying its geological structures, surface characteristics and climate.

In a recent paper, the science team behind the Tianwen-1 ... Mars Meteorology Monitor. That’s a whole bunch of instruments, and China has some very specific goals for the mission. It hopes to ...

Scientists used NASA's Insight lander, which picked up seismic vibrations on the planet, to map Mars' insides in detail. They found that the planet's core was much larger than expected ...

Earlier, CNSA said the Tianwen-1 probe has collected a large amount of scientific data since entering Mars’ orbit on February 10 and the window for setting down on an icy area of the planet ...

Its successor, the Perseverance rover, set down in Jezero Crater in February, and China’s first Mars rover, Tianwen-1 landed at Utopia ... Arizona, mapped hundreds of canals he believed Martians ...

This wide elliptical orbit will allow Hope’s instruments to observe every geographical region of Mars, at every time of day, once every 9 days, to create a global map of Martian weather.

China's Tianwen 1 mission has completed its final science task, imaging the entire surface of Mars from orbit. China has established the Tiandu deep-space exploration laboratory to support the ...