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Who are these cartoon Cartoon-like characters displayed on the side of the Tianwen-1 Mars lander?

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Who are these cartoon-like characters displayed on the side of the Tianwen-1 lander?

Scott Manley's excellent new video China's Mars Rover Zhurong Has Completed Its Primary Mission, Reaches New Milestone is chock-full of space-sleuthing goodies and interesting information about the mission, its spacecraft, and some of its engineers.

Below is a screenshot of the Tianwen-1 lander. While the context is the speculation that post-landing remaining fuel was spent by actually firing thrusters on each side resulting in the dipolar bright spots seen from orbit, I noticed that next to the Chinese flag there are some cartoon-like characters.

Question: Who are these cartoon-like characters displayed on the side of the Tianwen-1 lander?


Screenshots (some cropped, sharpened and otherwise "enhanced" unscientifically) from the video:

Screenshots (some cropped, sharpened and otherwise "enhanced" unscientifically) from Scott Manley's video China's Mars Rover Zhurong Has Completed Its Primary Mission, Reaches New Milestone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSSs6FfBlgY Screenshots (some cropped, sharpened and otherwise "enhanced" unscientifically) from Scott Manley's video China's Mars Rover Zhurong Has Completed Its Primary Mission, Reaches New Milestone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSSs6FfBlgY

Screenshots (some cropped, sharpened and otherwise "enhanced" unscientifically) from Scott Manley's video China's Mars Rover Zhurong Has Completed Its Primary Mission, Reaches New Milestone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSSs6FfBlgY