The field of view covers the west limb of the sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC HELSINKI — China plans to send a space observatory out of the plane of the ecliptic for a mission to study the ...
BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- China is set to launch the Tianwen-2 mission this year ... this 40-100 meter-wide asteroid orbits the Sun with parameters almost identical to Earth's, constantly ...
China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2 ... The celestial body orbits the sun, making it a constant companion of Earth. Scientists believe that it contains clues to the solar ...
according to a 2022 speech by Tianwen-1 mission lead Sun Zezhou. Namrata Goswami, a space policy researcher in the US, said the change suggests that China’s confidence in its ability to develop ...