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China’s Tianwen-1 mission captures unique image of the Earth and moon on its way to Mars – Firstpost
The black and white image was captured by the spacecraft some 1.2 million kilometres away from Earth, on 27 July.
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After China launched its first interplanetary Mars mission Tianwen-1 on 23 July 2020, the spacecraft has now captured some stunning images of the Earth and the Moon on its way to the Red Planet. The images were taken by Tianwen-1 just before making its first trajectory correction manoeuvre on 2 August.
The official Twitter account of the China Global Television Network (CGTN) shared the black and white picture captured by the spacecraft. As per the tweet, t…
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