2023-04-24 18:42:03
China has achieved it, for the first time and after putting the Tianwen 1 spacecraft into operation, The first global panoramic images of the Red Planet are now official. After many attempts, the photographs captured by this spacecraft have a spatial resolution of 76 meters per pixel.
Commemorate the first launch of the Chinese satellite
The captures were publicly shared by the China National Space Administration and the Chinese Academy of Sciences at a ceremony on the occasion of the ‘China Space Day’, which celebrates the launch of the first Chinese satellite which was launched in 1970.
Tiawen 1, the high-definition spacecraft
The images were made with the processing of 14,757 images, thanks to the medium definition camera mounted on the ‘Tiawen 1’ Martian orbiter during its 284 remote sensing maneuvers from November 2021 to July 2022. The spacecraft was named in this way in honor of an ancient chinese poem and was first launched on July 23, 2020, becoming the country’s first independent interplanetary exploration effort. In addition, the spacecraft traveled some 475 million kilometers and made various trajectory maneuvers before entering Martian orbit in February 2021.
On the other hand, next to the ship ‘Tiawen’ started up el rover Zhurong -named after the god of fire, according to Chinese legend- it landed on the red planet in May 2021, then traveled the Martian surface to carry out scientific tasks. Tiawen and Zhurong are orbiting the planet to transmit signals and conduct scientific operations that subsequently transmit more than 1,800 gigabytes of data to Earth.
Numbers space advances
As reported by the Asian media, ‘China Daily’, it is expected that there will be better international scientific and engineering maps from now on – all thanks to this important advance – and that expeditions to Mars will improve. Thank you To these studies, the images and data provided by ‘Tiawen 1’ will allow Chinese scientists to identify many geological bodies surrounding the area where the spacecraft landed and that he has named 22 of those bodies after Chinese villages.
Los advances to discover all the ins and outs of the red planet do not stop, after verifying that there is ‘life’ on Mars, now it can be seen and analyzed from a completely different perspective, thanks to advances such as ‘Tianwen 1’.
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