China’s Tianwen-1 zooms in on Mars surface on cusp of new tech era


By Matt Ho

China’s Mars orbiter has beamed back high-resolution images, revealing geographic features of the red planet in detail.

The photos taken by Tianwen-1 come a week after the United States released a panorama of the Martian surface snapped by the rover Perseverance.

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