Tianwen-1 was China's first independent mission to Mars, consisting of an orbiter, a lander and a rover, launched on a Long March 5 rocket from Wenchang. It entered Mars orbit in early 2021 and a few months later the lander, carrying the Zhurong rover, touched down in the Utopia Planitia region, making China the second country to land and operate a rover on Mars. The rover studied the soil and the geology with ground-penetrating radar and cameras, and it operated for about a year before entering hibernation during the winter. The orbiter has continued to study the planet with cameras and other instruments. The mission launched in the same period as the American Perseverance rover and the Emirati Hope orbiter.
Before and after
- from 20 June 2020 to 9 August 2020Premiere of It's Okay to Not Be Okay
- 21 June 2020Solar eclipse of June 21, 2020
- 19 July 2020Launch of Mars Hope
- 22 July 2020Earthquake near 2020 Perryville, Alaska Earthquake
- 23 July 2020Launch of Tianwen-1
- 28 July 2020Founding of Lublin Triangle
- 30 July 2020Launch of Mars 2020
- 30 July 2020Launch of Ingenuity
- 30 July 2020Launch of Perseverance
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