China Mars Mission 2021: Where to Follow and Watch Rover Landing
China took an independent mission to explore Mars' surface. Their Tianwen-1, which translates to "Question to Heaven," was scheduled to a seven-minute descent on the Martian land called Utopia Planitia and succeeded.
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China took an independent mission to explore Mars' surface. The country was going against impossible odds and ambitiously sent out a fully equipped rover to do the exploration, which has reportedly succeeded.
The "Tianwen-1" spacecraft has been the subject of space talk in these last two years, primarily because China was aiming the impossible: to land a rover on the Red Planet's surface. The Verge reported that until Friday, only NASA has made successful landings on the planet, such as their Soviet Union's Mars 3 spacecraft in 1971. However, connection with the spacecraft lasted no more than 20 seconds before shutting down.