Chinas asteroid probe Tianwen-2 has actually recorded pictures of the Earth and moon, which the China National Space Administration (CNSA) released on Tuesday.The CNSA said that the narrow-field-of-view navigation sensing unit equipped on the probe recently captured the images of Earth and the moon, showing excellent functional performance.The images released include a picture of Earth gotten by Tianwen-2 when it was around 590,000 kilometers far from the planet, in addition to a brand-new photo of the moon captured when it was about the exact same distance from the moon.
After the images were transferred back to the ground, they were processed and produced by scientific researchers.As of Tuesday early morning, the Tianwen-2 probe had been running efficiently in orbit for over 33 days, reaching a distance of more than 12 million kilometers from Earth, according to CNSA.China introduced its first asteroid sample-return objective, Tianwen-2, on May 29, an endeavor to clarify the formation and advancement of asteroids and the early solar system.The Tianwen-2 objective aims to attain several goals over a decade-long expedition: gathering samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016HO3 and exploring the main-belt comet 311P, which is more far-off than Mars.(With input from Xinhua)