Suara.com – Explorer Zhurong from the Tianwen-1 mission that landed on the surface Mars on May 14 in the Utopia Planitia region, will begin its mission this weekend.
Zhurong will spend his first seven to eight days on the surface of Mars studying its environment and carrying out checks on its systems and instruments.
Currently, the rover is still on top of the lander.
According to officials at the China National Space Administration (CNSA), the rover is scheduled to slide down the later lander and hit Mars for the first time between May 21 or 22.
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After descending the lander, the 240 kg robot will spend at least three months doing geological analysis and hunting water ice on Mars.
The Tianwen-1 mission first launched on July 23, 2020 and arrived in February, just four days after the United Arab Emirates’ Mars orbiter and a week before NASA’s Perseverance rover landing.
This mission consists of an orbiter, lander, and rover. The Tianwen-1 orbiter is designed to operate for at least one Martian year or about 687 Earth days.
The orbiter not only functions as a transmitting station, but is also equipped with a high-resolution camera and will carry out mineralogical investigations.
Reporting from Space.com, Tuesday (18/5/2021), Tianwen-1 is a completely self-developed Mars mission in China, but not the first Red Planet mission.
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Previously, the Mars orbiter Yinghuo-1 was launched in November 2011 but failed.
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