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 ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover landed in Gale Crater on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012 at 1:32 a.m. — 10 years ago this week. It is in good ...

Mars 2 (1971) and Mars 3 (1971) operated successfully but were unable to map the surface due to dust ... and China's first fully homegrown Mars effort, Tianwen 1. The Hope orbiter arrived at ...

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 ...

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.

Now Europe has greenlit a mission to the inferno planet. China's historic Tianwen-1 mission lander and rover star in a fresh Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter view. Trillions of periodical cicadas are ...

The China National Space Administration also released the first audio recorded by the Tianwen-1 mission's Zhurong rover. This makes Zhurong only the second rover to capture sound on Mars after ...

which could peer through the Venusian clouds and map the surface, and a multispectral imager that could observe Venus in the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared wavelengths. VOICE is a ...