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Xi extends congratulations on China's first Mars landing

Source: Xinhua Updated: 2021-05-15

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Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, witnesses the landing of China's Mars probe Tianwen-1, at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing, on May 15, 2021. China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 successfully landed on the surface of the red planet on Saturday, leaving a Chinese footprint on Mars for the first time. The Tianwen-1 probe touched down at its pre-selected landing area in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, a vast plain on the northern hemisphere of Mars, at 7:18 a.m. (Beijing Time), the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced. [Xinhua/Rao Aimin]

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