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![]() by Staff Writers Beijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2022
China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 extended festival greetings to the Chinese people with stunning video footage captured by a camera on its orbiter to snap selfies above the red planet on Monday, the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year. The video published by the China National Space Administration showed that the orbiter's 3000N engine, propellant tank, attitude control engine and other components were all in good conditions. It also offered a view of the sun's reflection casting on the orbiter, a Chinese national flag shining on the spacecraft and the ice cap on the red planet's north pole. As of Monday, the Tianwen-1 orbiter has been working in orbit for 557 days at a distance of around 325 million km from Earth. The Mars rover Zhurong has been operating for 255 Martian days and has driven a total of 1,524 meters on the surface of the planet. Since its launch on July 23, 2020, the Mars mission has sent back 600 GB of raw scientific data, according to the space administration. The Tianwen-1 will soon have its first anniversary in orbit, as it reached Mars on Feb 10 last year. Source: Xinhua News Agency
![]() ![]() Consistent asteroid showers rock previous thinking on Mars craters Perth, Australia (SPX) Jan 22, 2022 New Curtin University research has confirmed the frequency of asteroid collisions that formed impact craters on Mars has been consistent over the past 600 million years. The study, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, analysed the formation of more than 500 large Martian craters using a crater detection algorithm previously developed at Curtin, which automatically counts the visible impact craters from a high-resolution image. Despite previous studies suggesting spikes in the fr ... read more
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