TIANWEN-1
UPSC GS MAINS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
China’s first Mars probe is called Tianwen-1 (formerly Huoxing 1). ABOUT :
- The spacecraft consists of an orbiter, a lander and a rover.
- Launched last year on a Long March 5 rocket from Xichang, China.
- Landing site: Somewhere in Utopia Planitia, a vast plain in Mars’ northern latitudes and the same place NASA’s Viking 2 mission landed in the 1970s.
- If the mission is successful, China will become the third country to achieve a Mars landing after the USSR and the United States.
FIVE CORE OBJECTIVES :-
- Create a geological map of Mars.
- Explore the characteristics of the Martian soil and potentially locate water-ice deposits.
- Analyze the surface material composition.
- Investigate the Martian atmosphere and climate at the surface.
- Understand the electromagnetic and gravitational fields of the planet.
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