Tianwen-1 Mars Mission
The Long March 5 launched Tianwen-1, China's first independent mission to Mars, which carried an orbiter, a lander and a rover. The orbiter entered Mars orbit on 10 February 2021, and the lander touched down on 14 May 2021 on Utopia Planitia, a vast plain in Mars's northern hemisphere. Its rover, Zhurong, named after a fire god of Chinese myth, drove onto the surface on 22 May and explored for about a year until it went into planned hibernation in May 2022, from which it never woke.
LIFTOFF
JUL 23 2020launched from LC-1 Wenchang
aboard Long March 5 Y4 into Areocentric
Broadcast
Watch how the launch went
carrying 5,000 kg of payload
Payloads · 5
- 01
Tianwen-1 orbiter
Mars orbiter
3,175 kg - 02
Tianwen-1 Deployable Camera x 2
Planetary exploration
- 03
Tianwen-1 Remote Camera
Planetary exploration
- 04
Tianwen-1 lander
Mars lander
- 05
Zhurong
Mars rover
240 kg

