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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, July 1 (Xinhua) — The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Tuesday released images of the Earth and the Moon taken in orbit by the Tianwen-2 probe.
The narrow-field navigation sensor on Tianwen-2 recently captured images of our planet and its natural satellite, showing good performance, the CNSA said.
The released images include a photograph of Earth taken by Tianwen-2 from a distance of approximately 590,000 km from the planet, as well as a photograph of the Moon taken at the same distance. After transmission to Earth, these images were processed by scientific personnel.
At the moment, Tianwen-2 has been in orbit for more than 33 days. It is separated from the Earth by more than 12 million km. All the probe systems are operating normally, the CNSA reported.
The 10-year Tianwen-2 mission has several goals: collecting samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016HO3 and studying the main-belt comet 311P, which is farther from Earth than Mars. -0-