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| Tianwen-1 - Photo courtesy of CNSA |
After the United Arab Emirates, China has now succeeded in reaching Mars.
China's own Tianwen-1 1 mission has successfully entered Mars orbit.
After this success, China has become the sixth country in the world whose mission has reached Mars.
Missions from the United States, the Soviet Union, the European Space Agency, India, and the United Arab Emirates have already reached the Red Planet.
China launched its mission to Mars in July and managed to enter the orbit of the Red Planet about seven months later.
After entering orbit, the lander on the mission will land on the northern part of Mars by May.
The Tianwen-1 weighs a total of 5 tons and was developed locally by Chinese experts, while the research mission was launched by its own rocket Long March 5.
The Tianwen-1 First Mission is a four-part mission that includes a research vehicle and other scientific instruments that will gather information about possible human populations on the Red Planet.
China had sent a joint mission with Russia to Mars nine years before the mission, but it was not successful at that time.
Now, for the first time, China has launched a solo mission and its orbiter will analyze it from the orbit of Mars with the help of high-resolution cameras, a spectrometer, a magnetometer, and an ice mapping radar instrument.
The Arbiter will also keep in touch with the landing rover, which is an impressive achievement of its kind.
This rover is equipped with the latest equipment and will work to find water on Mars.
Its lander will act as a rover platform and if the rover and lander successfully land on Mars and start working, it will become the second country after the United States to do so.
Tianwen-1's orbiter is scheduled to operate for one Mars year (687 Earth days) and the rover's life target is set at 90 Mars days.
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