Tianwen 1

• 09 Jun 2020

• China's space agency - China National Space Administration (CNSA) has named its first Mars exploration mission as “Tianwen 1” meaning "quest for heavenly truth."
• The program has been named after a long poem by ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan.
• China's Mars mission includes complete orbiting, landing, and roving in one mission.
• So far, the United States and the former Soviet Union are the only two countries to land a spacecraft on Mars, but the European Space Agency and India have successfully sent spacecraft to enter the planet's orbit.