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Mars ready for its close-up: China releases space probe’s first image – Reuters
China’s maiden space exploration mission to Mars has captured its first image of the red planet, the space agency said on Friday, some six months after the probe…
By Reuters Staff
FILE PHOTO: The first image of Mars taken by China’s Tianwen-1 unmanned probe is seen in this handout image released by China National Space Administration (CNSA) February 5, 2021. CNSA/Handout via REUTERS
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinas maiden space exploration mission to Mars has captured its first image of the red planet, the space agency said on Friday, some six months after the probe left Earth.
The uncrewed Tianwen-1 took the picture at a distance of around 2.2 million km (1.4…
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