To China, the successful soft landing on Mars made only the United States, writes ARS Technica, ignoring the Soviet mission “Mars-3”.
“China became only the second country that made a soft landing on the red planet, which can be called a great success,” assures the American edition.
Ars Technica notes that in its dimensions and mass Marshod Zhurong Mission Tianwen-1 comparing with American Spirit and Opportunity, which arrived at Mars in 2004.
Edition in the material that has emerged to report on the success of Tianwen-1, writes that “no country, except the United States, has not carried out a successful landing of a spacecraft for Mars and did not deploy a rover.” Other countries have tried and failed several times. “,” writes ARS Technica.
More objectively about the success of the PRC tells Spaceflight NOW, reminding that to China “only two countries have previously achieved a soft landing on the red planet.” The publication of the American edition argues that the Soviet descent apparatus “Mars-3″ was the first spacecraft who made a soft landing on the surface of Mars in December 1971, but the probe stopped transmitting [data] about two minutes [after landing]. ” / P>
The Chinese Tianwen-1 Space Agency with Zhurong Marsworth made a successful landing on the surface of the Red Planet at night on May 15. With this event, the PRC congratulated in Russia and the USA.