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Mars space probes. China s tianwen 1 spacecraft has beamed home some deep space selfies snapped by a small camera jettisoned during its journey to mars. China s mars probe tianwen 1 successfully conducted a deep space. This is an image of the scene taken at the beijing aerospace control center bacc in beijing capital of china oct. The video above captured by the probe shows the camera tumbling off into the.
Mars probes comparison of several mars probes. Since the early 1960 s dozens of spacecraft have been sent to explore mars. A small camera with wide angle lenses on both sides was ejected. View larger version historical overview of mars exploration.
The mission returned thousands of images giving us our first global look at the planet. Xinhua the tianwen 1 which means heavenly questions in chinese was launched on july 23 and is expected to reach mars by february next year. Spacecraft to successfully touch down on any planet other than earth. Vikings 1 and 2 became the first space probes to successfully land on the surface of mars.
China s tianwen 1 space probe on its way to mars ejected a small camera to grab selfies of the spacecraft. The probe is about 24 million km from earth. The mars 1m programs sometimes dubbed marsnik in western media was the first soviet unmanned spacecraft interplanetary exploration program which consisted of two flyby probes launched towards mars in october 1960 mars 1960a and mars 1960b also known as korabl 4 and korabl 5 respectively. 2001 mars odyssey is an orbiting spacecraft designed to determine the composition of the planet s surface to detect water and shallow buried ice and to study the radiation environment.
Both spacecraft were launched in 1976 the year in which the united states celebrated its bicentennial. Cnn the united arab emirates successfully launched its mars bound hope probe on sunday marking the the arab world s first interplanetary mission and the first of three international missions. Orbit was first achieved with mariner 9 in 1971.