Tianwen 1, China’s historic Mars mission, has     1     (successful) accomplished all its planned scientific tasks, according to the China National Space Administration. The administration said on Wednesday the Tianwen 1 mission orbiter had obtained medium-definition images of the entire planet,     2     (mark) the completion of its scientific goals. The craft     3     (circle) Mars 1, 344 times so far and will continue to carry out extended remote-sensing operations and     4     (technology) tests.

Named after an ancient Chinese poem, Tianwen 1     5     (launch) on July 23, 2020. The craft travelled about 475 million kilometres and carried out several trajectory maneuvers (变轨) before entering Martian orbit in February last year.

Meanwhile, the Zhurong Mars rover (漫游者),     6    has been in dormant (休眠的) mode since mid-May, is expected     7     (restart) explorations in December, when the weather is more favorable.

The rover, named after the god of fire in ancient Chinese legend, touched down     8     the planet on May 15, 2021 and began to travel across the Martian surface a week later. Before it entered dormant mode, the robot travelled nearly 2, 000 metres and obtained much data and many images on the road to its destination the vast Martian plain where it landed.

By now, the 13 scientific    9     (instrument) on the orbiter and the rover have transmitted nearly 1,040 gigabytes (十亿字节) of raw data back to Earth. The data has been delivered to Chinese scientists and has helped deepen knowledge of     10     Red Planet.

China’s Mengtian space lab module,     1     third major component of the nation’s Tiangong space station, was launched on Monday afternoon in a key step to complete the inorbit assembly of Tiangong. The lab module’s carrier — a Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket — blasted off at 3:37 pm at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in the southernmost island province of Hainan. After     2    (fly) more than eight minutes, the rocket placed the spacecraft into a low-Earth orbit nearly 400 kilometers above the ground in     3     Tiangong is traveling. In the next couple of hours, the Mengtian docked (对接) with the Tiangong station’s Tianhe core module, according to the China Manned Space Agency.

The lab module     4    (be) about 17.9 meters long, has a diameter (直径)    5     4.2 meters and weighs more than 23 metric tons, according to its     6    (design) at the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology. Gan Keli, Mengtian’s project manager at the Shanghai Academy, said, “Scientific     7    (equip) onboard will be used     8    (carry) out experiments in fluid physics, materials science, combustion science and fundamental physics.”

After Mengtian     9    (connect) with the Tiangong, the station will finally form a T-shaped structure and astronauts will have as much as 110 cubic meters in their     10    (use) space.