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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChina has landed on Mars
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/14/22436072/china-tianwen-1-mars-landing-zhurong-rover"China landed its first pair of robots on the surface of Mars on Friday, state-affiliated media confirmed on social media, becoming the second country to do so successfully after overcoming a daring, seven-minute landing sequence. The countrys Tianwen-1 spacecraft ejected the rover-lander bundle for a Martian touchdown at around 7PM ET, kicking off a mission to study the Red Planets climate and geology.
The mission marks Chinas first independent trek to Mars, about 200 million miles away from Earth. Only NASA has successfully managed to land and operate rovers on the planet in the past. (The Soviet Unions Mars 3 spacecraft landed on the planet in 1971 and communicated for about 20 seconds before unexpectedly going dark.) Chinas mission, involving three spacecraft working together, is ambitiously complex for a first-timer the first US mission, Viking 1 in 1976, only involved a lander deployed from its probe.
China landed its first pair of robots on the surface of Mars on Friday, state-affiliated media confirmed on social media, becoming the second country to do so successfully after overcoming a daring, seven-minute landing sequence. The countrys Tianwen-1 spacecraft ejected the rover-lander bundle for a Martian touchdown at around 7PM ET, kicking off a mission to study the Red Planets climate and geology.
The mission marks Chinas first independent trek to Mars, about 200 million miles away from Earth. Only NASA has successfully managed to land and operate rovers on the planet in the past. (The Soviet Unions Mars 3 spacecraft landed on the planet in 1971 and communicated for about 20 seconds before unexpectedly going dark.) Chinas mission, involving three spacecraft working together, is ambitiously complex for a first-timer the first US mission, Viking 1 in 1976, only involved a lander deployed from its probe."
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China has landed on Mars (Original Post)
CentralMass
May 2021
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lunatica
(53,410 posts)1. The space race is on!
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)2. It would appear so.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)4. There's nothing like competition to bring out
the best or the worst. The danger is weaponizing space. Teaching kids to keep the hate going is another sure fire bad thing. We seem to have so much of that, and it seems like it isnt hard to do.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)5. Competition is a good thing.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)3. ...
dweller
(23,562 posts)6. Did we equip the helicopter with drones ?
asking for a uh ... friend ?
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