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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