China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft completes historic Mars landing
Al Jazeera, 16 May 2021
An unmanned Chinese spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday.
China is now the third country to make a touchdown on Mars, after Russia, in 1971, and the US five years later.
The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on a site on a vast plain known as Utopia Planitia, “leaving a Chinese footprint on Mars for the first time”, China’s state news agency Xinhua said.
Al Jazeera’s Alexi O'Brien reports.
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China is now the third country to make a touchdown on Mars, after Russia, in 1971, and the US five years later.
The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on a site on a vast plain known as Utopia Planitia, “leaving a Chinese footprint on Mars for the first time”, China’s state news agency Xinhua said.
Al Jazeera’s Alexi O'Brien reports.
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