Thursday, 5 March, 2026
China's Mars orbiter sends back selfie video on Lunar New Year
By Basit Ansari
<p>In a new selfie video released ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year, China's first Mars orbiter, Tianwen-1, shows off its tour around the Red Planet. The video shows a good portion of the spacecraft's body, engines, and solar array speeding through space, with parts of Mars' surface visible in the backdrop. Tianwen-1 came to Mars with a lander and a rover, both of which successfully landed on the planet. The spacecraft orbiter has been circling Mars for nearly a year now. </p>
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