China showed a color map of Mars at a scale of 76 meters per pixel
Miscellaneous / / April 25, 2023
National Space Administration of China (CNSA) and Chinese Academy of Sciences published color map of the surface of Mars. It was created on the basis of images from the Zhurong rover.
The CNSA noted that the maps were compiled in different projections from 14,757 frames made by the device over eight months (from November 2021 to July 2022). They are processed in accordance with the standards of mapping and with a resolution of 76 meters per pixel. By the way, similar cards NASA boasts a large scale - 5 meters per pixel. However, they are monochrome, while the Chinese ones are in color.
During the mission, the research team also identified 22 geographic features near the rover's landing site. They were named after Chinese villages and towns with less than 100,000 inhabitants.
China's Tianwen-1 mission launched on July 23, 2020. After 202 days of flight, the Zhurong lander came out into Mars orbit and soon landed on its surface. During its operation, the rover traveled 1921 meters. In May 2022, due to the onset of winter on the Red Planet, he was put into hibernation, but later he never came out of it. There is every reason to consider the rover lost, experts say.
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