China's probe radar to explore internal structure of Mars

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China's probe radar to explore internal structure of Mars
by Staff Writers
Beijing (XNA) Jul 28, 2020

Illustration of the Tianwen-1 orbiter.

After landing on Mars, China's Tianwen-1 probe will detect the surface and internal structure of the red planet by using its onboard radar equipment.

A ground-penetrating radar, a key probe instrument, was developed by the Aerospace Information Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is expected to survey the Martian soil and ice, and to collect data about the structure beneath the planet's surface at depths of between 10 and 100 meters.

China launched its first Mars probe, Tianwen-1, on Thursday, kicking off the country's independent planetary exploration mission.

According to scientists, the Mars probe will take about seven months to land on the planet.

Source: Xinhua News

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China launches Mars probe in space race with US
Wenchang, China (AFP) July 23, 2020
China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into deep space. The two countries are taking advantage of a period when Earth and Mars are favourably aligned for a short journey, with the US spacecraft due to lift off on July 30. The Chinese mission is named Tianwen-1 ("Questions to Heaven") - a nod to a classical poem that has verses about the cosmos. Engineers and other employees cheered at the launch site on the ... read more

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