Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 13, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs13173439
Keywords
Tianwen-1; lander localization; NaTeCam image; HiRIC image; descent image; landmark triangulation
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- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB41000000]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41771490, 41771488]
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China's first Mars exploration mission, Tianwen-1, successfully landed in the southern part of Utopia Planitia, with the lander location determined accurately through multiple localization processes, showcasing high precision in localization accuracy.
Tianwen-1, China's first Mars exploration mission, was successfully landed in the southern part of Utopia Planitia on 15 May 2021 (UTC+8). Timely and accurately determining the landing location is critical for the subsequent mission operations. For timely localization, the remote landmarks, selected from the panorama generated by the earliest received Navigation and Terrain Cameras (NaTeCam) images, were matched with the Digital Orthophoto Map (DOM) generated by high resolution imaging camera (HiRIC) images to obtain the initial result based on the triangulation method. Then, the initial localization result was refined by the descent images received later and the NaTeCam DOM. Finally, the lander location was determined to be (25.066 degrees N, 109.925 degrees E). Verified by the new orbital image with the lander and Zhurong rover visible, the localization accuracy was within a pixel of the HiRIC DOM.
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