Video footage of spacecraft circling Mars was released by China’s space agency, two days after it successfully entered the planet’s orbit in Beijing’s latest ambitious space mission.
In the video, the surface of the planet is seen coming into view out of a pitch-black sky against the outside of the Tianwen-1, which entered the orbit of the Red Planet.
White craters are visible on the planet’s surface, which fades from white to black through the video as the probe flies over the course of one Martian day.
It is the latest step in Beijing’s space programme, which aims to establish a crewed space station by 2022 and eventually put an astronaut on the moon, and has opened up a new, extraterrestrial arena for US-China competition.
Source: aljazeera
