Tianwen-1 sends selfie video featuring Olympic emblems

Source: People’s Daily app

14:58, February 06, 2022

Check out this video to see China’s Mars probe Tianwen-1 sending a selfie video featuring emblems of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to celebrate the official opening of the grand event.

The Tianwen-1 Mars probe has been working in space for 561 days as of Friday. The Zhurong Mars rover, as part of the Mars mission launched on July 23, 2020, has been working on the surface of the Red Planet for 259 Martian days and has traveled 1,537 meters, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).

(Produced by Xu Shilin and Lou Qingqing)