Ahead of Chinese New Year, China released a new video that shows Tianwen-1 Mars Orbiter flying around the Martian lands. <\/p>\n
The country's National Space Administration unveiled this selfie clip as part of the celebration for the Year of the Tiger.<\/p>\n
(Photo : WANG ZHAO\/AFP via Getty Images)Ahead of Chinese New Year, China released a new video that shows Tianwen-1 Mars Orbiter flying around the Martian lands.<\/p>\n
According to a report by Ars Technica,the visual highlights of the video involved the space probe's fuel tanks, solar panels, and main engine. The fact that it was roaming on a foreign planet was not a new task for this machine.<\/p>\n
China first sent it to space in July 2020. In February 2021, it successfully entered Mars orbit. The space program recognized the said spacecraft in a special feat. It was the first vehicle that reached the planet's orbit for the first time.<\/p>\n
The accomplishment of China put it on the prestigious list of countries that managed to touch down on the red planet using a space robot. To add, Tianwen-1 was not an ordinary invention, to begin with. It came with a rover-lander bundle thattouched the Martian soil last May 2021.<\/p>\n
In the next five years, China will integrate space science, technology, and applications while pursuing the new development philosophy, building a new development model, and meeting the requirements for high-quality development,\" the white paper of the Chinese space program reads. <\/p>\n
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The Verge reported in another story that China was known for being \"fairly opaque\" about its space missions. The country only publicized minor information about its flights in space.<\/p>\n
The recent selfie video that showed Tianwen-1's activity was not the first clip to be released for the public. Last month, the team captured images of the Martian terrain through the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, the Mars Orbiter also snapped photos of itself in the same region through a camera attached to another vehicle. The said vehicle was protected by a shell-like feature.<\/p>\n
In another report by Tech Times, the Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on Utopia Planitiaof the Red planet. Upon unloading the Zhurong rover, it faced the dreaded \"seven minutes of terror\" which the NASA Perseverance managed to survive.<\/p>\n
However, it turned out that the Chinese vehicle did not only endure the seven minutes of its battle. Instead, it was recorded to be nine minutes in duration.<\/p>\n
The said term was used by NASA to describe a specific point in time wherein a space robot could have difficulties in receiving the radio signals.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, several pictures involve other Martian robots. Aside from China, NASA has been taking pictures of the Red Planet using the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers.<\/p>\n
The international space agency discovered the ever-changing landscape in Earth's neighboring planet. When NASA sent its Insight lander to survey the \"iron\" region, it also deployed two satellites. One of them was used to take a selfie of the huge Martian background.<\/p>\n
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