Surrounder local close-up.
On New Year's Day 2022, the China National Space Administration released a set of exquisite images transmitted from distant Mars by the Tianwen-1 probe, China's first Mars exploration mission, to report safety to the people of the whole country.
This set of images includes a group photo of the orbiter and Mars, a local close-up of the orbiter, the Arctic ice sheet of Mars, and the fire surface landform photographed by the "Zhurong" rover, showing the working state of the orbiter, the "Zhurong" rover and the acquired surface form of Mars.
As of December 31, 2021, the Tianwen-1 orbiter has been in orbit for 526 days, currently about 350 million kilometers from Earth, with a communication delay of about 19.5 minutes; the rover has worked on the surface of Mars for 225 Martian days, with a cumulative travel of more than 1400 meters. At present, the Tianwen-1 mission is carrying out exploration and related tests as planned, sending back about 560GB of raw scientific data, and the two devices are in good condition and running normally.
Xinhua News Agency (Photo courtesy of China National Space Administration)
The North Pole Ice Sheet of Mars.
The orbiter poses with Mars.
The "Zhu Rong" rover photographed the fire surface landform.
Source: Xinhua Net