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NASA rover’s touchdown thrills Chinese netizens, ups zeal for Tianwen-1 landing
Deng Xiaoci Published: Feb 19, 2021 11:44 AM
Photo: twitter account of NASA s Perseverance Mars Rover
Dubbed the largest, most advanced rover the US space agency NASA has ever sent to another world, Perseverance nailed its safe landing at the preset site on Mars on Thursday, drawing a conclusion to its 203-day journey, covering more than 470 million kilometers from Earth.
The successful touchdown, which was announced at mission control at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California around Beijing time 5 am on Friday, immediately thrilled Chinese social media users, with the topic rocketing atop of China s microblogging giant Sina Weibo search list, gathering nearly 30 million views and more than 2,500 comments as of press time.
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19 February 2021
Nasa’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission, the agency’s fifth rover to land on the Red Planet, touched down in Jezero Crater at around 3:55 pm EST (12:55 pm PST) on Thursday (18 February 2021), engineers at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, where the mission is managed, have confirmed.
The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars, after a 203-day journey traversing 472 million kilometres (293 million miles).
Packed with groundbreaking technology, the Mars 2020 mission launched on 30 July 2020, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the Perseverance rover mission marks an ambitious first step in the effort to collect Mars samples and return them to Earth.
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