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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