Tianwen-1 was China's first Mars exploration mission.
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Qu Yuan 屈原's 《天问》 (c. 3rd century BC) is a 1,500-character poem of unanswerable questions about cosmology, mythology, and history - China's classic exercise in cosmic doubt.
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China's CNSA borrowed the name in 2016 for its planetary exploration series. Tianwen-1 successfully orbited Mars and landed the Zhurong rover in 2021. Tianwen-2 (asteroid sample return) and Tianwen-3 (Mars sample return) followed.
