China’s Mars Exploration Mission and Science Investigation

  • Chunlai Li*
  • , Rongqiao Zhang
  • , Dengyun Yu
  • , Guangliang Dong
  • , Jianjun Liu*
  • , Yan Geng
  • , Zezhou Sun
  • , Wei Yan
  • , Xin Ren
  • , Yan Su
  • , Wei Zuo
  • , Tielong Zhang
  • , Jinbin Cao
  • , Guangyou Fang
  • , Jianfeng Yang
  • , Rong Shu
  • , Yangting Lin
  • , Yongliao Zou
  • , Dawei Liu
  • , Bin Liu
  • Deqing Kong, Xinying Zhu, Ziyuan Ouyang
*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

China’s first Mars exploration mission (HuoXing-1) has been named as ‘Tianwen-1’ meaning Heaven Inquiry. Tianwen-1 was launched on July 23, 2020. In this paper, the scientific objectives of earlier and current Mars exploration missions worldwide are reviewed, and the scientific objectives, payloads and preliminary scientific investigation plan of China’s first Mars exploration mission are introduced, and expected scientific achievements are analyzed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number57
JournalSpace Science Reviews
Volume217
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • In-situ exploration
  • Mars exploration
  • Payloads
  • Remote sensing exploration
  • Scientific investigation plan

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