China’s Tianwen-1 sends New Year blessings from Mars by releasing new images

The CNSA released new images taken by the Tianwen-1 Mars probe on the first day of 2022, including one group picture of the orbiter with the Red Planet, Zhurong rover on Mars surface and the Mars North Pole glacier.

As of Dec31, 2021, Tianwen-1 has been in Mars orbit for 526 days. At 350 million km from Earth, communication took 19.5 min delay.

Zhurong rover has worked 225 Martian days on Mars, traveled over 1400 m.

Mars north pole glacier captured by Tianwen-1 orbiter.