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Based on the unverifiable descent images which cover the full range of the landing area, trajectory recovery and fine terrain reconstruction are important parts of the planetary exploration process. In this paper, a novel trajectory recovery and terrain reconstruction (TR-TR) algorithm employing descent images is proposed for the dual-restrained conditions: restraints of the flat terrain resulting in an unstable solution of the descent trajectory and of the parabolic descent trajectory causing low accuracy of terrain reconstruction, respectively. A landing simulation experiment on a landing field with Mars-like landform was carried out to test the robustness and feasibility of the algorithm. The experiment result showed that the horizontal error of the recovered trajectory didn\u2019t exceed 0.397 m, and the elevation error of the reconstructed terrain was no more than 0.462 m. The algorithm successfully recovered the descent trajectory and generated high-resolution terrain products using in-orbit data of Tianwen-1, which provided effective support for the mission planning of the Zhurong rover. The analysis of the results indicated that the descent trajectory has parabolic properties. In addition, the reconstructed terrain contains abundant information and the vertical root mean square error (RMSE) of ground control points is smaller than 1.612 m. Terrain accuracy obtained by in-orbit data is lower than that obtained by field experiment. The work in this paper has made important contributions to the surveying and mapping of Tianwen-1 and has great application value.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14030709","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,6]],"date-time":"2022-02-06T20:38:40Z","timestamp":1644179920000},"page":"709","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Trajectory Recovery and Terrain Reconstruction Based on Descent Images under Dual-Restrained Conditions: Tianwen-1"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7572-8168","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chen","family":"Qi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"},{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}]},{"given":"Shaochuang","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}]},{"given":"Yaming","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"}]},{"given":"Aigong","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mapping and Geographical Science, Liaoning Technical University, Fuxin 123000, China"}]},{"given":"Jianli","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering, Beijing 100094, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4076-2101","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Youqing","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}]},{"given":"Minglei","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3822-5243","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xinchao","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mapping and Geographical Science, Liaoning Technical University, Fuxin 123000, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7014-3048","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Huan","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China"},{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}]},{"given":"Yongzhe","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"10","DOI":"10.1038\/s41550-016-0010","article-title":"Three eras of planetary exploration","volume":"1","author":"Ingersoll","year":"2017","journal-title":"Nat. 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