China's National Space Administration (CNSA) published a series of detailed images on June 29 that were taken by its Tianwen-1 Mars probe and cover the planet's entire surface. Other images show the 4,000-kilometer-long Valles Marineris canyon and the impact craters of Arabia Terra, an upland region in Mars's north. China successfully launched the unmanned Tianwen-1 on July 23, 2020, and to date, it has photographed the Red Planet in its entirety over 1,300 orbits. (CGTN)
China hopes to launch its first Mars probe around 2020 as the module technology for the exploration of the planet is maturing, some aerospace experts recently disclosed in Beijing. The exploration, which consists of plans to orbit, land and probe, has been listed as one of China's aeronautic projects in the coming years, according to Yuan Minhui, director of Beijing Space Science and Technology Information Institute.
China is preparing to launch a Mars probe in 2020, and it is expected to arrive on the red planet in 2021, aerospace expert Ye Peijian has said. "Although we are not the first Asian nation to send a probe to Mars, we want to start at a higher level," said Ye, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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