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China publishes new datasets obtained by Mars, lunar probes

Photo taken by the rover Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) on Jan. 11, 2019 shows the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe. Photo by China National Space Administration/Handout via Xinhua.
Photo taken by the rover Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) on Jan. 11, 2019 shows the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe. Photo by China National Space Administration/Handout via Xinhua.

China published two new batches of data, obtained by its Mars probe and lunar probe. This was reported by The Xinhua News Agency.

The scientific data obtained by three scientific payloads including a high-definition camera on Tianwen-1, the country's Mars probe, from January to March this year, have been released, amounting to nearly 68 gigabytes, according to the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC).

This is the probe's fifth data release. Tianwen-1, consisting of an orbiter, a lander and a rover, entered the Mars orbit on Feb. 10, 2021, becoming the country's first probe to orbit the planet.

Also, the NAOC team published the 38th scientific data acquired by four payloads mounted on the lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe between April 15 and June 24 this year. The data is sized at 2.7 gigabytes.

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The Chang'e-4 probe, launched on Dec. 8, 2018, made the first-ever soft landing on the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon on Jan. 3, 2019.

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