CCTV News: National Space Administration News, as of now, the Tianwen-1 Mars exploration has obtained more than 1480GB of original data, and the Chinese scientist team has achieved a number of original scientific results based on the data. Several studies have shown that there are water activity remains in the landing area of the Zhurong Mars rover.
After more than a year of inspection and detection by Zhurong number , scientists found plate-shaped rocks rich in water minerals in the images they obtained.
Researcher at , National Space Science Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Liu Yang: (Rock) The color is relatively bright. Through the spectral data, we see that its components are rich in salts containing some aqueous minerals, such as sulfate , which plays a cementation role between soil particles.
These rocks are closely related to water activities. Scientists speculate that water activities occur roughly in the late Amazonian period of Mars .
Researcher at the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: In the past 1 billion years, Mars may have some suitable origins of life or the existence of such climatic conditions, and it is also likely to be in a relatively mild space underground.
Zhurong rover landed in the southern part of the Martian utopian plain. This exploration mission formed the basic map of the region for the first time internationally. Among them, the high-resolution camera carried by the surrounder can acquire images with a spatial resolution of about 0.7 meters. The rover further explores and imaging in detail on the surface. Liu Jianjun, chief designer of the ground application system of the Tianwen-1 mission: Through the combination of these 13 payloads, including (Mars), its morphology, shallow structure, magnetic field, and meteorological characteristics, a complete set of global comprehensive detection and local detailed detection, plus key detection in the landing area.
Zhurong is currently dormant. It is expected that Mars' environmental conditions will be awakened automatically after improving by the end of the year and continue to move southward.
Tianwen-1 mission chief scientist Pan Yongxin : Because we happen to be in a north-south interactive zone of Mars, some people speculate that it is the boundary of an ancient ocean, so we (to the south) towards the edge, and geological phenomena will be richer.
In addition, the scientific research team used Tianwen-1 exploration data to obtain a number of excellent scientific results in the shallow underground structure of Mars, the distribution of magnetic fields, ions and neutral particles in the Martian space environment, and the Martian gravity field.
Tianwen No. 1 mission chief scientist Pan Yongxin: After the Zhurong inspection vehicle arrives, it will carry the loads of various scientific instruments, just like the eyes of our scientists. Tianwen-1 provides first-hand data to Chinese scientists, which means that we can analyze our scientific stories from the most fundamental way, from using other people's data to using our own data, the autonomy of data indicates our initiative in scientific discovery.
Through the Tianwen-1 mission, my country has achieved long-distance data transmission of hundreds of millions of kilometers, laying a solid foundation for my country's subsequent interplanetary exploration from multiple aspects such as technology, engineering, and scientific achievements.
Source: CCTV.com
