China's Mars probe heads for Red planet.
                     CHINA'S MARS 
PROBE HEADS FOR 
RED PLANET
INTRODUCTION
 The Chinese National Space Administration 
(CNSA) announced on Sunday that Mars's 
Tianwen-1 sample has been flying over 400 
million kilometers and will be circling the Red 
Planet next month. 
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com
MARS PROBE
 At 6.00 a.m. On Sunday 163 days the sonde 
travelled about 130 million kilometres from Earth 
and about 8.3 million Kilometers from Mars, 
news agency Xinhua reports.
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MARS ORBIT
 The CNSA notes that the probe operates stably 
and is due to slow in more than a month until it 
reaches the Mars orbit and prepares itself to land 
on the Red Planet. 
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MARS SAMPLE
 The Mars sample has taken a shot showing both 
Earth and the moon and took a variety of selfies 
since its conception on July 23, 2020. 
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ORBITAL CORRECTIONS
 It has carried out three orbital corrections, a 
deep-space manoeuver and self-checks on 
multiple payloads.
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TIANWEN-1
 Tianwen-1 consists of an orbiter, a lander and a 
rover, which is about five tonnes in weight. 
 It is planned to rotate, roll and orbit in one 
mission.
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HIGH-RESOLUTION CAMERA
 Using a high-resolution camera for planning for 
landing in May, it will take between two and 
three months to survey possible landings. 
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DIFFICULT ASPECT OF THE 
PROJECT
 The soft landing, the autonomous testing phase 
lasting seven to 8 minutes according to the 
CNSA, would be the most difficult aspect of the 
project. 
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AERODYNAMIC SHAPE
 Aerodynamic shape, parachute and retrorocket 
would be used by the sample to decelerate and 
tap legs. 
 Tianwen-1 is a poet written by Qu Yuan (around 
340-278 BC), one of the most distinguished 
poets of antiquity China.
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SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY
 If it is landed the rover is released for scientific 
discovery, with at least 90 Martian days 
scheduled to last and the orbitor can relay 
messages for the rover while performing its own 
scientific surveillance, with a design lifetime of 
one Martian year.
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