Scientific objectives and payloads of Tianwen-1, China's first Mars exploration mission

Yongliao Zou; Yan Zhu; Yunfei Bai; Lianguo Wang; Yingzhuo Jia; Weihua Shen; Yu Fan; Yang Liu; Chi Wang; Aibing Zhang; Guobin Yu; Jihong Dong; Rong Shu; Zhiping He; Tielong Zhang; Aimin Du; Mingyi Fan; Jianfeng Yang; Bin Zhou; Yi Wang; Yongqing Peng

doi:10.1016/j.asr.2020.11.005

Scientific objectives and payloads of Tianwen-1, China's first Mars exploration mission

Yongliao Zou^*
, Yan Zhu
, Yunfei Bai
, Lianguo Wang
, Yingzhuo Jia
, Weihua Shen
, Yu Fan
, Yang Liu
, Chi Wang
, Aibing Zhang
, Guobin Yu
, Jihong Dong
, Rong Shu
, Zhiping He
, Tielong Zhang
, Aimin Du
, Mingyi Fan
, Jianfeng Yang
, Bin Zhou
, Yi Wang

Yongqing Peng

^*Corresponding author for this work

CAS - National Space Science Center
CAS - Institute of Optics and Electronics
CAS - Changchun Institute of Optics Fine Mechanics and Physics
CAS - Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics
University of Science and Technology of China
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China Electronics Technology Group Corporation
CAS - Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics
CAS - Aerospace Information Research Institute
Beijing Research Institute of Telemetry

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This paper describes the scientific objectives and payloads of Tianwen-1, China's first exploration mission to Mars. An orbiter, carrying a lander and a rover, lifted-off in July 2020 for a journey to Mars where it should arrive in February 2021. A suite of 13 scientific payloads, for in-situ and remote sensing, autonomously commanded by integrated payload controllers and mounted on the orbiter and the rover will study the magnetosphere and ionosphere of Mars and the relation with the solar wind, the atmosphere, surface and subsurface of the planet, looking at the topography, composition and structure and in particular for subsurface ice. The mission will also investigate Mars climate history. It is expected that Tianwen-1 will contribute significantly to advance our scientific knowledge of Mars.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	812-823
Number of pages	12
Journal	Advances in Space Research
Volume	67
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2020.11.005
State	Published - 15 Jan 2021
Externally published	Yes

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China's first Mars exploration
Scientific payloads
Scientific tasks

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Zou, Y., Zhu, Y., Bai, Y., Wang, L., Jia, Y., Shen, W., Fan, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, C., Zhang, A., Yu, G., Dong, J., Shu, R., He, Z., Zhang, T., Du, A., Fan, M., Yang, J., Zhou, B., ... Peng, Y. (2021). Scientific objectives and payloads of Tianwen-1, China's first Mars exploration mission. Advances in Space Research, 67(2), 812-823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2020.11.005

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