On the night of May 20, a heavy rain poured down without warning. At 21:38, Wan Weixing, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, chief scientist of the Chinese Mars Exploration Program, and space science and planetary physicist, died of illness and died at the age of 62.
Sadness flows like river. The big disciple Ding Feng remembered the day at the end of April again. At that time, Wan Weixing had just unplugged the ventilator tube, his condition was somewhat stable, and his breath was still weak. Ding Feng went to the hospital to see him, he only said softly "July", and then he sighed. Ding Feng did not answer. But he knew clearly that the teacher was talking about the launch date of the Chinese Mars probe. "We all know that what he wants most to see is the Mars rover going to the sky, but he never said it. He is the kind of person who takes care of other people's emotions and is afraid of leaving a psychological burden on everyone."
Two months later, at noon on July 23, at 12:41 on July 23, Beijing time, the attention and expectation of Academician Wanxingxing during his lifetime-China's first Mars exploration mission, the Tianwen-1 Mars Rover, in Wenchang, Hainan The launch site was successfully launched by the Long March 5 carrier rocket into a predetermined orbit, and China's Mars exploration journey started from this, and China's planetary exploration has also taken a historic first step.
(Video source: Chinese Academy of Sciences reporter Sun Zifa and editor Li Jiali)
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]