China launched its first ambitious Mars Rover Mission- ‘Tianwen-1’ on July 23, 2020 aboard Long March 5 rocket from Hainan Island's Wenchang Satellite Launch Center.
Tianwen-1 includes a Mars orbiter, a lander and a rover. The mission, if successful, will mark a huge first in human history, as it includes a Mars orbiter, lander and rover all in one go.
Tianwen-1 is China’s first fully homegrown Mars mission. The name of the Mars probe has been taken from a poem by Qu Yuan, who lived from the 4th -3rd B.C. and it means “Questions to Heaven.”
China will attempt to land its rover/ lander in the Utopia Planitia region in the mid-northern Martian latitudes. NASA’s Viking 2 mission had touched down there in 1976.
China’s first Mars Mission was an orbiter called Yinghuo-1, which was launched aboard a Russian rocket along with Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission in November 2011. The launch had failed and all spacecraft aboard eventually fell back to Earth.
China’s Mars probe launch is the second Mars mission to be launched this month, following the launch of UAE’s Hope space probe to Mars on July 19, 2020.
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