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China s Mars Probe Just Sent Haunting Photos of The Red Planet
6 APRIL 2021
China s Mars probe, Tianwen-1, has been hanging around Mars in a parking orbit for nearly two whole months now, preparing for its rover landing in May.
But it s not just sitting there in orbit twiddling its antennae. The probe is surveying the planet, orbiting closer, checking out the mission s chosen rover landing site - and sending back some amazing images of our dusty planetary friend.
 
On March 16 and March 18, the spacecraft took two panoramic photographs with its medium-resolution camera of a crescent Mars viewed from its far side, with the Sun behind it, from a distance of about 11,000 kilometers (6,835 miles). ....

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