
5 minutes to TMI burn and the craft is slowly rotating to be pointing beyond Earth's horizon - just in time... Phew!

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At 8 o'clock on May 17, Tianwen No. 1 orbiter
The fourth near-fire brake has been implemented,
Successfully entered the 8.2-hour relay communication track.
At this stage, the main job of the orbiter is
To be the "messenger" between the earth and Mars,
Carry out the "Earth Fire Biography".
At present, the Zhurong Mars rover is working as planned
Carry out surrounding environment perception and status inspection,
The systems are working normally.
Just yesterday, the communication link between the two devices has been established,
For the first time, the rover telemetry data was sent back through the orbiter.
Hello everyone, this is the Mars Rover Zhurong,
Everything is normal for me on Mars,
Thank you everyone for caring about me~
Coming to a new planet, full of curiosity and busy,
But very fulfilling, very happy,
Because the work is methodical and full of confidence~
Let me tell everyone what work I did today~
Today, complete navigational terrain camera landing site environment perception,
X-band ground communication, UHF-band inter-device relay communication,
Download landing site images and telemetry data,
The image is being processed,
You can see my photographs right away~
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