China's Mars probe travels 400M km in 163 days, to enter Mars' orbit in Feb
China's first Mars exploration mission Tianwen-1 travelled more than 400 million kilometres by January 3 and is expected to enter Mars' orbit next month, China's space agency said. It was about 130 million kilometres from Earth and about 8.3 million kilometres from Mars. After entering Mars' orbit, it will spend two-three months surveying potential landing sites.





