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CentralMass

(15,265 posts)
Fri May 14, 2021, 11:38 PM May 2021

China 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 country’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft ejected the rover-lander bundle for a Martian touchdown at around 7PM ET, kicking off a mission to study the Red Planet’s climate and geology.

The mission marks China’s 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 Union’s Mars 3 spacecraft landed on the planet in 1971 and communicated for about 20 seconds before unexpectedly going dark.) China’s 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 country’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft ejected the rover-lander bundle for a Martian touchdown at around 7PM ET, kicking off a mission to study the Red Planet’s climate and geology.

The mission marks China’s 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 Union’s Mars 3 spacecraft landed on the planet in 1971 and communicated for about 20 seconds before unexpectedly going dark.) China’s 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 OP
The space race is on! lunatica May 2021 #1
It would appear so. CentralMass May 2021 #2
There's nothing like competition to bring out lunatica May 2021 #4
Competition is a good thing. CentralMass May 2021 #5
... Lucinda May 2021 #3
Did we equip the helicopter with drones ? dweller May 2021 #6

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
4. There's nothing like competition to bring out
Sat May 15, 2021, 12:04 AM
May 2021

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 isn’t hard to do.

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