China News Service, Beijing, October 1 (Guo Chaokai, Yang Lu) On October 1, on the occasion of the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, the China National Space Administration released the flight images of China’s first Mars exploration mission, Tianwen-1. The five-star red flag above is dazzling, showing a bright Chinese red.
This is the first deep-space “self-portrait” of China's Tianwen-1 probe.
In the vast universe, the silver landing patrol device and golden orbiting device are shining brightly, and Tianwen No.1 uses this to report safety to the motherland and express birthday wishes.
The five-star red flag on the detector is about 39 cm x 26 cm in size, slightly smaller than a piece of A3 paper, weighs 144 grams, and the pattern is sprayed with special materials through a special overprinting process.
On October 1, the China National Space Administration released the flight images of the Tianwen-1 probe of China's first Mars exploration mission. This is the first deep-space “self-portrait” of China's Tianwen-1 probe.
Photo courtesy of the National Space Administration
The flight image was taken by the separate measurement sensor carried by the Tianwen-1 probe.
The sensor is installed on the outer wall of the detector and is separated from the detector body under ground control. It uses two wide-angle lenses installed on both sides of itself to take an image per second, and transmits the image to the detector through WIFI communication, and then the detector Forward to the ground station.
The Tianwen-1 probe was successfully launched on July 23. It was directly sent to the Earth-fire transfer orbit by the Long March 5 carrier rocket. During the flight, the Earth-Moon photo acquisition, two midway corrections of the orbit, and payload self-check were successfully completed.
As of the early morning of October 1, the probe has flown 188 million kilometers, 24.1 million kilometers from the earth, and the flight is in good condition.
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